Libtool and Support for Shared Libraries (3)

Florian Pflug fgp at phlo.org
Thu Jun 28 20:20:34 EDT 2012


On Jun28, 2012, at 01:53 , Greg Banks wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012, at 04:36 PM, Dilyan Palauzov wrote:
>> Moreover, does it make any difference, if imapd links with 
>> libcyrus_sieve and libcyrus_sieve links with libcom_err, or if imapd 
>> links explicitly with both libcyrus_sieve and libcom_err ?
> 
> Very little.  It really only matters for shared libraries which are
> going to be dlopen()ed, of which we currently have none

Hm, I think this matters on OSX. On that OS, you only "see" the symbols
exported by libraries you link to directly, not the ones pulled in indirectly.

best regards,
Florian Pflug



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