Re: What happened to libtool transitive DSOs?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Paul T. Bauman wrote:
> This is correct and bit us as well when Debian-based systems changed this.
> Our very hackish work around was to insert the following in our configure.ac
> immediately after AC_OUTPUT():
>
> perl -pi -e 's/link_all_deplibs=no/link_all_deplibs=yes/' libtool

OS distributions where shared libraries provide robust implicit 
dependencies, and where pkg-config or other methods are used to obtain 
build options, do not like what libtool does.  They do not like that 
libtool adds libraries that the application/library did not explicitly 
link with.  The reason why they do not like this is that if they 
introduce a different library which has different dependencies then 
they would like the dependencies to be entirely determined by the new 
library.

This is a very long-standing point of contention.

Bob
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