Re: Changes in handling library dependencies
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 12:41:03PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> Jason> On 21 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote:
>
> >> Hang on. You can't do it!!! At least, not with libtool.
>
> Jason> What? .la files are only for static linking, we are talking
> Jason> about dynamic. It is good that libtool complains :>
>
> Jason> Look inside the .la file, it is just a text file.
>
> I was hoping that libtool would be smart enough to find the correct
> shared library. Shared library information is listed in the *.la
> file, too.
Shared library information in the .la is just redundancy of what info can
be gotten from the library itself. It is only useful to the human reader
(who understands little about ldd and objdump). Ld does not use it, and
neither does ldso. So it is not needed.
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