>> as i go to upgrade some pkgs, i see (on one machine) that libtool-base
>> is required by dict-client.  on another, libtool-base is required by
>> guile.
>> 
>> this seems strange.  there did not used to be anything that explicitly
>> required libtool-base in this manner.  perhaps the buildlink2 file for
>> libtool is a little wrong?
>
>Packages should only use libtool/buildlink2.mk if they need to link
>against the libltdl shared library in ${LOCALBASE}.  Otherwise, just
>setting USE_LIBTOOL in the package (to get a build dependency on libtool)
>is enough.

% ldd /usr/pkg/bin/dict 
/usr/pkg/bin/dict:
         -lz.0 => /usr/lib/libz.so.0
         -lltdl.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libltdl.so.3
         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

% ldd /usr/pkg/bin/guile
/usr/pkg/bin/guile:
         -lltdl.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libltdl.so.3
         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm387.so.0
         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
         -lguile.10 => /usr/pkg/lib/libguile.so.10
         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

can't say i see *why* they'd need that.  the dict-client pkg, for
example, never needed such a thing before.  fwiw...

% locate Makefile | grep /usr/pkgsrc | xargs grep -l libtool/buildlink2.mk
/usr/pkgsrc/databases/unixodbc/Makefile.common
/usr/pkgsrc/devel/kdesdk2/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/devel/kdesdk3/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/lang/guile/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/mail/balsa/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/mail/libesmtp/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/security/libmcrypt/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/aspell/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/dict-client/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/dict-server/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/gtkspell/Makefile
/usr/pkgsrc/textproc/libpspell/Makefile

what does that library do, exactly?  provide an alternative to the
regular dlopen() foo or something?

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