On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 4:05 PM Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, Oleg Smolsky wrote: > > > > Leaving it here for posterity. Perhaps someone will do this with a bit > more > > finesse and turn it into a proper feature. > > Are you using libtool as originally distributed by the FSF or are you > using a libtool provided by a Linux system package? > > The libtool provided as part of a Linux distribution often hacks > libtool so that it does not include full dependency information in the > library.la files. They do this in order to avoid "excessive linkage" > because they do not want the program/library to retain full linkage > details in case the OS changes the libraries. > Oh, that's a very interesting hint! thanks, Bob! I am using libtoon from the distro. What does it take to take libtool from upstream? Certainly I can fetch its source... but how do I marry that with the `autoreconf` invocation that drives build system generation? Oleg.
