On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> For example, there is a library, libevolution-addressbook.la, that does not
> use NSS directly.  However, it depends on another library, named libeabutil.la,
> which _does_ use NSS (this later one is built as a static archive only).

Um, libeabutil.la is a static lib, but is being referenced by a shared
object (which I presume libevolution-addressbook is)?  Sounds fishy to me,
to say the least.  But anyway:

> So, the libeabutil.la gets '-lnss3 -L/usr/pkg/lib/mozilla-gtk2', among other
> flags, in its dependency_libs line.

That's odd.  I'd have thought that the rpath would show up there.  But:

> I thought... this can be solved with the wrapper framework, by making it add
> the rpath flags in the dependency_libs line.  But after taking a look at the
> libtool-fix-la file, I saw:
>
>                 ####################################################
>                 # Skip all -R* options... rpath info shouldn't go into
>                 # the dependency_libs line.
>                 ####################################################
>                 -R*)
>                         ;;

This is WRONG and will be fixed.  I'll get the discussion going on this.

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