Re: Gnome/Gnu Libraries Question

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> On Friday, September 07, 2001 12:10:02 +0800, malcolm commsecure com au 
> wrote:
> +----
> | I'm not too familiar with the way SunOS compiler messages work, but is
> | it trying to tell you to link with /opt/gnome-1.4/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0?
> +--->8
> 
> Yes, that's the single most frustrating message I've ever gotten from the 
> Solaris ld:  "nyah nyah, I know where this symbol is because of shared 
> library dependencies, but I'm not going to follow the dependencies unless 
> you explicitly tell me to".  (So what's the point of embedding dependencies 
> in a shared library if it's going to stick its tongue out at you instead of 
> following them?  Sheesh.)
> 

The depenencies are there for ld.so, of course. The behaviour of ld is
just so everybody fixes their makefiles, I guess.

> -- 
> brandon s. allbery    [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]   allbery kf8nh apk net
> system administrator       [WAY too many hats]         allbery ece cmu edu
> electrical and computer engineering                                  KF8NH
> carnegie mellon university    ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
> 

	Sander

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