> > * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth". Is xauth a
> > build or runtime dependency?
>
> I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11
> libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the
> other hand, most of my binaries seem to be statically linked, so I'm not
> sure.
i think it's neither. xauth is an application. and the x libraries are not
staticly linked:
; ldd sam
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9d4a3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff821485000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff821282000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff821067000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff820d18000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff821706000)
- erik
