Re: [xml] Generating a correct xml2-config for use with --libs

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:33:38PM +0100, Gary Pennington wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Maybe Solaris doesn't need this, but then please make the patch conditional
> > to Solaris first (unless I misunderstood something).
> I didn't think this was Solaris specific...
>
> An application need only link against libraries it explicitly uses. If 
> foo uses networking code, then it should link with the appropriate 
> networking libraries. If however, foo's only "use" of networking is 
> performed by libxml2, then it is libxml2 which needs to link with the 
> networking libraries and not foo.

  I don't think this statement is portable, sorry ! There are systems
where libraries can't record those informations.

Daniel

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