Re: interdependent shared library problem

[Patrick Welche]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:31:53PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> * Patrick Welche wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:17:42PM CEST:
> > 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib doesn't need to be in the default set of paths searched
> > by the loader. As I mentioned, with a different compile line to the one
> > generated by libtool, I have a working hello. The problem is that the
> > binary created by libtool contains the dependencies of the shared the
> > library rather than just depending on the shared library.
> 
> No.  The bug is that the -R information isn't also transferred to the
> program.  The (known) Libtool limitation is that it does not implement
> a consistent set of semantics for indirect library dependencies.
> (Note there are systems which don't have such.)
> 
> I'm not sure why -R isn't transferred, but somebody may have had some
> good reason for it.  Who knows.

Does the following (my first(!)) autotest pass for you? [Could be improved
with a if x_no=yes exit 77, but I don't see yet how to get x_no out]

Cheers,

Patrick

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