[Xcb] [RFC PATCH] New XCB socket handoff mechanism for Xlib/XCB and other libraries

[Rémi Cardona]

Jamey Sharp a écrit :

> Given what Josh tells me about this, it sounds like you have one of the
> versions of libtool that's broken in how it handles library dependencies
> on systems with reasonable linkers. On a system with GNU ld, for
> example, there's no reason to include recursive library dependencies in
> .la files.

True, but libtool still includes everything, for backwards compatibility 
reasons (AIX, old HP-UX, ...).

> In fact, as far as I understand, with a sensible linker there's no
> reason for .la files at all, and you can solve this problem by simply
> removing them all. :-)

It's one solution which I've actually done to fix the libXCB -> libxcb 
transition on my system. Some apps that use libtool's dlopen wrapper 
will fail though (but that's beyond the scope of Xorg).

If modular Xorg libs could come up with a common configure flag that 
would tell libtool not to install .la files, that would be great. I 
guess we (downstream distributors) could stop shipping .la files, but I 
guess it'd be better if such a behavior were to be standardized upstream.

Food for thoughts :)

Cheers

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Rémi Cardona
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