Re: Shall security/p11-kit depend on gettext-lib?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 07:09:37AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 12:36:34PM +0200, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> >  > --- buildlink3.mk       8 Mar 2020 16:42:30 -0000       1.3
> >  > +++ buildlink3.mk       3 Jul 2021 10:30:50 -0000
> >  > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> >  > [...]
> >  > +.include "../../devel/gettext-lib/buildlink3.mk"
> >
> > You shouldn't need to add it to the bl3 file unless applications also
> > need to explicitly link to gettext, which AFAIK they don't. The
> > dependency is enough to get the files buildlinked.
> 
> I have no idea what's going on here, but there is a bug in libtool or
> our libtool that ends up adding in the "not directly used deps" on the
> link line.

It's not a bug in libtool. Access to the transitive closure is necessary
for static linking as well as when dealing with the broken modern ELF
linker that don't actually implement symbol lookup correctly.

Joerg