Re: Getting libgnome* into shape

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Zbigniew Chyla wrote:

> On Fri, 2001-08-31 at 12:54:44, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > I might be mistaken, but wouldn't you be able to do "-lgal -leel -lgal"?
> > If the interdependencies are more complex, it may be necessary to add some
> > more "-leel -lgal"'s to the end.  And on systems supporting shared
> > libraries, simply doing "-lgal -leel" would be sufficient.
> >
> > [Note that cases like this are the reason why they turned off duplicate
> > removal in libtool's link stage]
>
> Does "-lm -lm -lm -lm -lm -lm -lm -lm" mean that math library depends on
> itself? Hmm...

No, but libtool doesn't know that.  (note that libtool also adds all the
dependencies of a library to the link line, which is why you get the
exponential increase :(

James.