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Re: libtool bug

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

Hallo Jan,

Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 um 09:16 schriebst du:


Charles Wilson writes: 


What was my objection back then?  I'm sure someone objected, because
otherwise it would have gone in; and I'm sure it was me, because
nobody else cares about the libtool internals. :-)


What is relinking supposed to achieve? 


IMO, useless waste of CPU time, nothing else (well, I'm sure there are
some bordercases where it actually needed, but if so, introduce a flag
to force relinking during installation).

Not entirely true. With your change (or one very similar), all of the *-exec.tests in the libtool test suite failed. These tests attempt to run the uninstalled executable. I'm not sure why; it's probably a side effect of the change, not just "relinking" itself. Investigating...

--
Chuck


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