Re: another darwin patch

[Benjamin Reed]

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:58  AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > Linking against static libraries while creating shared libraries is
> > not portable.
>
> Then why does pass_all exist?

Yeah, it seems to me if pass_all is what Linux is configured for, 99% of 
the people that are using libtool are likely already breaking the rules. 
 Unless it gets enforced everywhere, all it does is make it harder on 
the platforms that allow linking against statics that you don't allow 
pass_all on.

You *know* people are doing it, even high-profile projects -- KDE links 
libXinerama (which is static-only) into libkdecore.  I'm sure there are 
many other examples of that particular usage too.

If libtool is going to require least-common-denominator, it should not 
pass_all on other plaforms either, or people will just ignore the 
non-portability of their linking.  All this means is that people on 
marginal platforms will still have to patch libtool anyways, which 
defeats the whole purpose of the tool in the first place.