libxcb-xlib.la failures when building X11 with libxcb-1.2

[Simon Thum]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Debian (and Ubuntu by proxy) has a patch that makes libtool only add
> needed libraries (i.e., those added on the command line) to the
> dependency_libs setting in .la files. Unfortunately, I think it still
> has a few corner case bugs that make it not upstream acceptable. I
> think this is it:
> 
> http://patches.ubuntu.com/libt/libtool/extracted/link_all_deplibs.patch
> 
I must say I don't know too much about dynamic linking and ELF, but I
know enough about how it should be to be appalled when I first realized
what got into those .la's. It eludes me why this deps-of-deps-of... went
into libtool in the first place.

Care to explain to a noob?

Cheers,

Simon