[OT] Re: libxcb-xlib.la failures when building X11 with libxcb-1.2

[Simon Thum]

Bill Crawford wrote:
> included on the command line at link time. Libtool sort of abstracts this, but 
> to do so it needs to keep track of what those dependencies are, and does so by 
> storing them in this .la file.
Thanks for the explanation. What baffles me is that AFAICT this
introduces a lot of names to the linker, which you hadn't in mind when
programming. So this practice is dangerous, because if you misspell
something it may still be satisfied as libnever-heard-or-seen.so
provides just your typo as a symbol, suppressing the proper error.

Am I missing something (besides proper headers)?