On 02/25/2013 01:29 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > On 2013-02-24 10:29, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> CMAKE_LINK_DEPENDS_NO_SHARED was introduced in this cycle, but off by >> default. It seems useful enough to be on by default. Is there any reason not >> to enable it by default? > > What is the use case for this? > > I'm having a hard time imagining a case where it buys you anything. What > would cause a .so to change often that you would *not* want to re-link?
The case here is that when a .so re-links its *dependents* do not need to be re-linked too. Since the .so is not statically linked into the dependents they should not need to be linked again. The dynamic loader will simply see the updated .so at runtime. Refer back to the thread I linked earlier: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/43246/focus=44469 -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
