Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:40:30 -0500 From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First Impression of 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811171038400.14291-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <36519613.52DA940@ics.com>
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I will answer this one point with my experience on SGI IRIX 6.2+ machines that experience this same behaviour. If I link libpng.so with libz.so, I *still* need to link any binaries with both libpng.so and libz.so. > Third, transitive linking doesn't work. I.e if I link libXt with -lSM > -lICE, and then link a program with -lXt, I get unresolved externals for > libSM and libICE. Should I? The program does not make any calls to libSM > or libICE, so I don't think I should. Leastways I don't get them on all > the other systems that use ELF, and I'd wager that if I looked, I could > find something in the ELF specification (a.k.a. the SystemV ABI) that > speaks to this. Of the three things, I think this is far and away the > most serious shortcoming. Nothing's going to fix this for 3.0, so some > sort of kludgie work-around will have to be employed. I hope someone > will fix this for the next release. -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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