[pulseaudio-discuss] Master now has circular build dependency

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Sat Oct 25 08:41:21 PDT 2008


On Sat, 25.10.08 17:37, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> neither libpulsecore nor libpulsecommon have that -- they change API
> every single release. Now libpulse needs to use functions from
> libpulsecommon and the other way round. After some discussions with a
> few people (such as Diego) I decided it is probably OK to have this
> cyclic dependancy on most systems. The dep from libpulse to
> libpulsecore is explicit. The dep the otherwise round is not -- which
> is fine because programs will link against libpulse and
> libpulsecore -- but not exclusively against libpulsecommon. Since
> libpulsecore also pulls in libpulse it is hence guaranteed that all
> symbols can be resolved.

Sorry this is bogus. I wanted to say that the dep from libpulse to
libpulse*common* is expcilit. 

Lennart

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