"Chris Bagwell" <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote: >> If, along the way, we could make it so that each backend only gets >> linked to the relevant libraries (without resorting to --as-needed), >> that'd be definitely great. I'm doing that with a monster patch right >> now and I'm looking forward to simplifying that :p > > Mind emailing me this monster patch for my reference?
It's in the debian package :) > I've done this on another project to clean up warnings reported by debian's > deblint util and most the work is in configure script. Keep in mind that linking every shared object against all the libraries was done for a reason, and losing that will break on ancient/legacy systems (proprietary Unices, though old ones now I think/hope. If there are any users... speak up) > Debian has a web page somewhere with build logs that reports the unneeded > libraries. I'll have to dig that page up for sane as it helps in this task. You won't find anything there due to what I wrote above ;) JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
