[Apologies if this has been covered before, but I cannot find anything
in the archives]
When building a package I noticed that binaries in the package were
still getting unnecessary DT_NEEDED entries. Example:
binary ---> depends only on libfoo.so
|
| libfoo depends on
`----> libbar.so
but the binary was getting built with DT_NEEDED entries for both
'libfoo.so' and 'libbar.so', which is wrong.
ld had the '--no-add-needed' flag, so ld wasn't adding the extra
DT_NEEDED entry. (See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange )
I tracked this down to our old friend libtool. Basically because the
binary and the library were being built out of the same source tree,
there was a 'libfoo.la' file which contained:
dependency_libs='libbar.so'
and this causes libtool to decide to "helpfully" add -lbar to the
linker command line, even though it is completely unnecessary.
(This is not a problem if libfoo and the binary were in separate
source packages, because we already nuke the *.la files, which avoids
this brokenness across different packages. The problem is
specifically confined to the case where binaries and libraries are
built from the *same* source package).
I was able to work around this by adding a libtool wrapper which set
dependency_libs='' in the *.la file.
I notice that Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo have proposed something
similar:
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00217.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586082
except they are unilaterally modifying libtool downstream instead of
using my hackish wrapper, which is a better idea. Apparently either
no one has tried to get this upstream, or libtool developers weren't
listening.
Rich.
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