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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:35:54 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: libtool bug
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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).


Gerrit
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