Mike Hearn (mike@xxxxxxx) said: > > libtool.. bigger question. But we can get pkg-config to do this right if we > > spend 2 days on it. > > This was already discussed on xdg-list and by James Henstridge. Pkg-config > and libtool aren't broken, they do this for portability. The GNU linker > doesn't need you to enumerate every library in the image but some > (unbelievably) do. > > Pkg-config files can't contain --as-needed directly because it's not > portable also. Whyever on earth not? The upstream distributed pkg-config files, sure. But if you have a local pkg-config file for the current linker, the vagaries of the Solaris linker are completely irrelevant. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list