bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 04/27/2015 09:27 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Bernhard Voelker wrote: Could we work around it? Sure, how about if we shrink it down to 0.19? Would that work for you? yes, 0.19 is okay for me - openSUSE-13.2 has 0.19.2. Thanks have a nice day, Berny

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 04/27/2015 07:30 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf ... @@ -318,9 +319,9 @@ gnulib_tool_option_extras=--tests-base=gnulib-tests --with-tests --symlink\ buildreq=\ autoconf 2.64 automake 1.11.2 -autopoint - +autopoint 0.19.4 bison -

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Bernhard Voelker wrote: Could we work around it? Sure, how about if we shrink it down to 0.19? Would that work for you? I picked 0.19.4 only because the old value was too low for gnulib and I was at 0.19.4. I think it needs to be at least 0.19, because of the recent gnulib changes.

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 20437 notabug close 20437 stop On 27/04/15 06:30, Paul Eggert wrote: Currently GNU 'ls' dynamically links a whole bunch of libraries, libraries like libpcre and liblzma. Can we figure out some way to remove the runtime dependencies on these libraries? It's better if a core utility

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 27/04/15 14:12, Pádraig Brady wrote: tag 20437 notabug close 20437 stop On 27/04/15 06:30, Paul Eggert wrote: Currently GNU 'ls' dynamically links a whole bunch of libraries, libraries like libpcre and liblzma. Can we figure out some way to remove the runtime dependencies on these

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Pádraig Brady wrote: Further reductions in deps might be possible by splitting up libselinux, allowing apps like ls that just read contexts, to link with the appropriate lib. I tried to see how to send a copy of this bug http://bugs.gnu.org/20437 to the libselinux developers, but the

bug#20437: ls links too many dynamic libraries

2015-04-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Currently GNU 'ls' dynamically links a whole bunch of libraries, libraries like libpcre and liblzma. Can we figure out some way to remove the runtime dependencies on these libraries? It's better if a core utility like 'ls' avoids libthis and libthat unless the libraries are vital to its