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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:59:41 +0200 |
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Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Great! It should be easy for you to fix it to only specify direct |
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> > link dependencies then, thus solving the underlying problem in one |
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> > place rather than working around it by fixing thousands of |
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> > individual packages. |
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> Sadly that would be already partially fixed by as-needed |
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as-needed fixes nothing. It works around some things, and introduces |
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some fairly icky problems as consequences. See the deleted comments on |
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Diego's blog posts for details. |
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> the problem is that libtool mangles also library search paths when |
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> using .la files and that breaks in a number of situations we have in |
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> some sort of normal uses of Gentoo. |
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Ah, so you'll be giving us a patch to test for that too, right? Fixing |
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the actual problem, rather than adding workarounds to a thousand or so |
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packages... |
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Good to see we're finally looking at addressing the root cause in one |
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place rather than trying to modify the entire tree. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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