Re: [PATCH] Transitive LIBDPLIBS, PROGDPLIBS

On 1/16/25 03:32, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I've never ever been comfortable with not knowing all dependencies
> explicitly, including the transitive dependencies of intermediate
> libraries, at build time.  The main program's build really should know
> all the dependencies its product(s) will have, not just the "front-line"
> ones.

...even if some programs need this, and failing to maintain the list of 
dependencies (including their ordering) does not always cause an error?

   LIBKRB5_LDADD+=	-lkrb5 -lcom_err \
   	-lhx509 -lcrypto -lasn1 \
   	-lwind -lheimbase -lcom_err -lroken \
   	-lcrypt -lutil
   LIBGSSAPI_LDADD+= -lgssapi -lheimntlm ${LIBKRB5_LDADD}

I don't think this is a viable solution and I'm all for Taylor's suggestion.