libtool

[Larry McQueary <mcqueary attbi com>]

Does anyone else have issues with libtool creating many many many 
duplicate library dependencies ??  I find in some packages (like 
gnome-vfs) that I'll have -L/somepathname -lnsl -lsocket (as examples) 
repeated over and over 30, 50, or 100 times for the same link.  Of 
course, many other times, they're only repeated 10 times or less.

It's so bad in some packages that I'll literally get so many repetitions 
of "-lnsl -lsocket" that the line length is exceeded and the script 
malfunctions as a result because the link line is not completed.  I 
finally had to start copying the libtool from gtk+-2.0.6 over into some 
packages, and even then had to hack it up so that it wouldn't loop 
endlessly.

Comments?

Larry
(Solaris 2.8, gcc-3.2, most common GNU packages installed)