[Gaim-devel] GtkSpell, Gaim and libltdl [was re: GtkSpell 2.0.4 released]

[Robert M. <rob...@de...>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:59:43PM -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> I have released GtkSpell 2.0.4.
> Sorry, all.  I intended to release this a few weeks ago and got
> distracted.
>snip<
> -- 
>       Evan Martin
> ma...@cs...
>   http://neugierig.org

Hi, this has next to nothing to do with the new release, but I thought
I'd ask if you could shed any light on this. When I (and others)
enable gtkspell in gaim, the linking of the gaim binary fails unless
libltdl3 and libltdl-dev are installed. This seems to be an annoying
extra dependency, seeing as pan seems to get away without needing
ltdl to make use of gtkspell.

The configure.ac fragments that pan and gaim use for gtkspell are
basically equivalent. I know we use libtool for linking, which obviously
is including its library, but is there some way we can use gtkspell
without adding this dependency? Do you know why libtool is including
libltdl?

Regards,
Rob