Use --deps option to krb5-config

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Sun May 13 19:52:09 EDT 2007


>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Ken> - Since we're not building static libraries at the moment,
    Ken> when do we want dependencies to be included?  If we do get
    Ken> static library support restored someday, a static-only build
    Ken> will need to explicitly list the system libraries we directly
    Ken> depend on.  That would be an attribute of the installed
    Ken> Kerberos package, not the application linking against it.  If
    Ken> we build both static and shared libraries, then an
    Ken> application to be linked statically against our libraries
    Ken> will need those dependencies.

Sometimes.
I agree that for a --enable-static --disable-shared build you want to always include dependencies.

However if I'm a third party application forcing static linking I want
to be able to tell krb5-config to include dependencies.

--Sam




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