[Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Jean-François Mertens
I see in an excerpt of 'man ld' for 10.5 that ld now has an option '-dead_strip_dylibs'. I would strongly favour adding this as a default LDFLAG (conditional to 10.5). It does have the potential, when used systematically, to substantially reduce our deps ... JF Mertens

Re: [Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: I see in an excerpt of 'man ld' for 10.5 that ld now has an option '-dead_strip_dylibs'. I would strongly favour adding this as a default LDFLAG (conditional to 10.5). It does have the potential, when used systematically, to

Re: [Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 12 Nov 2007, at 04:50, Jean-François Mertens wrote: On 12 Nov 2007, at 04:27, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: I see in an excerpt of 'man ld' for 10.5 that ld now has an option '-dead_strip_dylibs'. I would strongly favour adding this

Re: [Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Jean-François Mertens wrote: On 12 Nov 2007, at 04:50, Jean-François Mertens wrote: this _ i.e., use this, so it would require pkg maintainers to edit correctly their .la files _ lost dream ... :) Well, it would be a pain, assuming nobody edited their .la files, but many used the dead

Re: [Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:13:13PM -0600, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Jean-Fran?ois Mertens wrote: On 12 Nov 2007, at 04:50, Jean-Fran?ois Mertens wrote: this _ i.e., use this, so it would require pkg maintainers to edit correctly their .la files _ lost dream ... :) Well, it would be

Re: [Fink-devel] -dead_strip_dylibs

2007-11-11 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 12 Nov 2007, at 05:27, Daniel Macks wrote: Does stripping down a package's Depends even help on the binary side either? It does in the sense of giving (potentially) a smaller footprint to the lib or executable The Depends' Depends would still be there, so the indirectly-linked libraries