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okay, this came up in a discussion today, and I figured it was time to |
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mention something about it here: |
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If your package, libFoo, installs .h files that directly require header |
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files from libBar, then you have a Runtime dependency on libBar, not |
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only a compile time dependency |
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Why? Because libFoo should be usable at runtime, even for compiling |
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things not managed by our tree. And if BazPack has a configure check, |
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requires explicitly libFoo, tests for the presence of said header, and |
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all checks out.. Then BazPack should be able to work, and libFoo's |
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header certainly shouldn't be broken for use in compile. |
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Runtime isn't only executables. |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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