On Sunday 2009-05-03 23:32, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: >In a shared library there are about 8 routines out over 100 that refer to >libgsl and libpthread. A frequent situation may arise where an application >program has no need for using the 8 procedures infected with other library >needs. > >At the current time, when I try to link such a program I get a failure unless >I add all the references to the additional libraries---even though they are >not employed by the program in any manner.
Then something is wrong in your setup, because I do not need to list all indirect libraries. The only exception is when dealing with non-libtooled static libraries that have poor subobject management. >Am I missing a trick? If the above answer does not answer it, try providing a test case and we'll take it apart :)
