* Mike Frysinger wrote on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:49:18AM CEST: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 18:41:52 Russ Allbery wrote: > > Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > > > libfoo-ssl_fast.so > > > myprog --> somelib --> or > > > libfoo-ssl_slow.so > > > > > > Note that in this case myprog depends on somelib and so that is an > > > explicit dependency. However somelib needs some symbols from a library > > > that the user selects at link time.
> i dont really see how this case is related to the discussion at hand. if a > library maker wanted to let people pick a provider, then the dependency > wouldnt be expressed in the libtool linker script. whether libtool processes > all of the libraries in the linker script is irrelevant to this issue. That is not right. Well, the way you state it, it can only work on GNU/Linux and a couple of other systems, but not portably. For other systems libtool needs to know. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool