Re: storage-modules libtool hackery

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Dan,

On 17 Apr 2001, Dan Winship wrote:
> storage-modules/Makefile.am does:
> 
> libstorage_efs_la_LDFLAGS =                   \
>         $(common_ldflags)                     \
>         -L$(shell pwd)/$(top_builddir)/libefs/src/.libs\
>         -lefs
> 
> which is presumably a hack to link one shared library against another
> uninstalled shared library (which libtool does not support). This 
> idiom breaks in CVS versions of libtool, although taking out the
> ".libs" makes it work.
  
        Yes, this blows badly and keeps me awake at night. Essentialy
libefs should not be included with bonobo. We should split it in Bonobo
2.0.
  
        Regards,
 
                Michael.

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