Re: Link fix

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> On 16 May 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Actually, you just upgraded to libtool, that's what fixed the problem
> > that Michael was "working around" in a way that was:
> >
> >  - unportable to various systems that hardcode full paths to libraries
> >    into executables.
> >  - GNU make specific.
>
>         Yes it stinks, no I was not responsible for this work around. In
> fact, if you look at the CVS history first 'timur' 'fixed' it like this,
> then unnamx changed it, then nat did - the first 3 commits to this file
> were trying to sort out this issue.
>
>         If libtool 1.4 allows a nice easy fix, then we should depend on
> that - I think we do need the _LIBADD, since we want to pull in libefs
> when we dlopen that plugin - or it'll just go nastily wrong probably
> silently,
>
>         Can you add the _LIBADD Federico ?

The current changes to bonobo does not compile on systems with old libtool.
And if we commit this change we also need to upgrade all other packages to
work with libtool1.4.

- Dietmar