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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS (Was: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?)
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:19:51
Message-Id: pan.2008.05.31.13.19.27@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS (Was: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> posted
2 20080531040338.26a64f31@snowcone, excerpted below, on Sat, 31 May 2008
3 04:03:38 +0100:
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5 > The correct fix is to make libtool only link to dependencies of
6 > dependencies when doing, for example, static linking. Debian has a
7 > half-working patch for this that I posted earlier in the thread.
8
9 Thanks. That explanation (mostly snipped for brevity) was a great "plain
10 English" explanation for those of us trying to follow along but not
11 making any claim to be great programmers or at understanding the depths
12 of libtool.
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