[Rivet] Rivet linker flags

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Wed Jul 31 12:20:25 BST 2013


On 31/07/13 12:18, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I just noticed that the libtool.m4 copy in Rivet is not the one you get
> from the upstream libtool project, but is the Debian-specific version.
> The difference is that Debian sets "link_all_deplibs=no" which is not
> recommended by the libtool guys. Googling the flag shows long
> discussions about the merits of no vs. unknown vs. yes, with no clear
> outcome. But since YODA, ThePEG and Herwig all have the upstream
> version, I was wondering if there was a specific reason to pick the
> Debian one here? If not, I'll make it consistent with the others.

Hi David,

That's certainly not an intentional thing from me -- a consequence of
having first bootstrapped those files on a Debian/Ubuntu machine. Please
sync!

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN


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