Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:43:56 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, kwm@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r362304 - head/x11-toolkits/pango Message-ID: <20140721144356.72c4e5c2@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <53CD047B.7080104@marino.st> References: <201407200815.s6K8FG8b003096@svn.freebsd.org> <20140720132259.156d687e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53CBA770.2010409@marino.st> <20140720113124.GD26778@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140720165256.1f4d5d07@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53CBF2D7.4070005@marino.st> <20140721013342.6c17ecdc@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53CCABFA.7090202@marino.st> <20140721121214.1d1f3ef5@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53CCF19B.3060906@marino.st> <20140721132621.64ef394c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53CD047B.7080104@marino.st>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:15:55 +0200 John Marino wrote: > On 7/21/2014 13:26, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:55:23 +0200 John Marino wrote: >>> Everything that uses a pango function that has a libm symbol must also >>> link with libm. >> >> This is a completely false statement. If X links to Y and Y uses Z >> symbols, you do not have to link X with Z. Y links with Z and that is >> enough. Otherwise X would have to link with its entire dependency >> tree. > > If the linker doesn't follow Y's link to Z, how is it supposed to > resolve Z references? If X doesn't contain Z references the linker doesn't have to resolve Z references. If X does contain Z references then explicit linking requires that you explicitly link X with -lZ and that you cannot rely on -lY to imply -lZ.
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