The most current exemple is -lc_r vs -lc (or -lXThrstubs vs
-lpthreads) on some systems for threaded vs non-threaded applications.
I'm talking about inter-X11 dependencies. Xext *always* depends on X11.
SM *always* depends on ICE. That kind of thing. Its a simple matter of
ELF shared object inter-
I wrote (in a message from Friday 5)
> inter-dependencies are both good and bad.
> It's a good thing to list them at build time, It helps finding some
> kind of conflicts.
> OTOH, one should not rely on them to prune the list of libraries used
> to link an executable. First, this will break
Matthieu Herrb wrote:
OTOH, one should not rely on them to prune the list of libraries used
to link an executable. First, this will break on static only build
(yes there are still systems without shared libs these days), and then
it can cause weird failures at run-time if the linker does not walk
t
Kean Johnston wrote (in a message from Friday 5)
> Hi,
>
> I asked this once before but unfortunately I lost the reply when I moved
> to Mozilla for my mail reader, so I'd like to ask the question again, or
> open up the debate.
>
inter-dependencies are both good and bad.
It's a good th
Hi,
I asked this once before but unfortunately I lost the reply when I moved
to Mozilla for my mail reader, so I'd like to ask the question again, or
open up the debate.
I would very VERY much like to see the XFree86 build correctly set up
its dependencies for shared libraries. For example, ma
