Re: libtool

[Larry McQueary <mcqueary attbi com>]

For that matter, and perhaps libtool's not the culprit on this, in many 
if not most packages I see my CFLAGS being repeated 3, 4, 10 times in a 
row during compilation of each file.  I can appreciate wearing a belt 
and suspenders, but can't understand the ad nauseam repetition.  

Again, is this something everyone else is seeing, or is it perhaps just 
related to my non-Linux system?  I find that hard to believe, given how 
generic GNU make and libtool are meant to be.

Larry McQueary wrote:

> Does anyone else have issues with libtool creating many many many 
> duplicate library dependencies ??  I find in some packages (like 
> gnome-vfs) that I'll have -L/somepathname -lnsl -lsocket (as examples) 
> repeated over and over 30, 50, or 100 times for the same link.  Of 
> course, many other times, they're only repeated 10 times or less.
>
> It's so bad in some packages that I'll literally get so many 
> repetitions of "-lnsl -lsocket" that the line length is exceeded and 
> the script malfunctions as a result because the link line is not 
> completed.  I finally had to start copying the libtool from gtk+-2.0.6 
> over into some packages, and even then had to hack it up so that it 
> wouldn't loop endlessly.
>
> Comments?
>
> Larry
> (Solaris 2.8, gcc-3.2, most common GNU packages installed)