Bug#405239: libgnutls13: gnutls13 has an unnecessary dependency on libgpg-error

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun Jun 14 10:38:05 UTC 2009


On 2009-06-14 Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> The culprit seems to be that this test

>> ---------------------------
>>   AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS(gcrypt,, [#include <gcrypt.h>],
[...]
>> gives us "checking how to link with libgcrypt... /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so
>> /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so", since AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS recursively
>> expands la files. We therefore end up with 

> I really can't see any reason why it should be doing that,
> specially if you're already using libtool.
[...]

The only reason I could think of was if I wanted to make use of the
dependency information in libtool la files without using libtool. 

cu andreas
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