status of extra_cflags.txt

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:20 -0800, James Peach wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:04 -0800, James Peach wrote:
> >>> ldb also uses talloc and talloc is required by users of ldb, so  
> >>> ldb is
> >>> a public dependency.
> >> So if libfoo is a DSO, then then only the private dependencies will  
> >> be
> >> linked into libfoo. If libfoo has public dependencies then any binary
> >> that declares a dependency on libfoo will be linked with libfoo and
> >> all the libfoo public dependencies.
> >>
> >> Is that right?
> > Yes, exactly.
> Do dependencies distinguish between libraries and subsystems?
No. We use this in some places: for example, popt can be used as an
external library if available on the system or as subsystem.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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