Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

On 10/5/10 4:33 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:49:43 +0200
> Luca Barbato<lu_zero@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>> Bluntly put, you seem to not know how libtool exactly works and
>> further down in the thread how linking exactly works. Please try to
>> learn the fine Gentoo docs on the subject and feel free to ask more
>> details on irc.
>
> Ah, so you do know exactly how libtool works?

I had to face it in code to workaround some cases already, it hadn't 
been a nice experience.

> Great! It should be easy for you to fix it to only specify direct link
> dependencies then, thus solving the underlying problem in one place rather
> than working around it by fixing thousands of individual packages.

Sadly that would be already partially fixed by as-needed, the problem is 
that libtool mangles also library search paths when using .la files and 
that breaks in a number of situations we have in some sort of normal 
uses of Gentoo.

> I look forward to testing your patch!

The patch to avoid the issues by omitting the usage of .la in case 
--shared is provided is easy enough and solves quite well the problems 
mentioned.

lu