Re: Question about Makefile templates for gtk

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 23:33:00 -0500 (EST), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> I would like to submit a patch, but I would first
>> like to communicate with the person who maintains
>> the Makefile.in templates.  Is there any special
>> reason why libgdk was not included in the link flags
>> when building libgtk?
>> 
> 
> Makefile.in is autogenerated from Makefile.am, then Makefile is generated
> from Makefile.in. If gdk wasn't linked it would have to be a bug in one of
> the build tools, maybe libtool or automake; gdk is specified in
> Makefile.am.

No, it is not a bug in the build tools. It (usually) makes no sense to
link with other libraries when you build a library. The linker won't
include the other libraries anyway.


Erik

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