On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:15:36PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:44 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > * avoid redundant libaries in apps > > > (for example most gnome apps right now have 2 XML libraries loaded and > > > in use) > > > > Lots of GNOME apps/libraries (and probably many other things as well) > > link to libraries that they don't actually use (try "ldd -r - > > u /usr/bin/*" some time). It'd be nice to get rid of those. > > Those links are there because libtool and pkg-config are stupid. libtool > and pkg-config aren't going to stop being stupid anytime soon, so we live > with the situation as-is :) this is not correct. pkg-config is fixable! We need to teach it about -Wl,as-needed which causes the linker only to add a lib when the app directly uses it. libtool.. bigger question. But we can get pkg-config to do this right if we spend 2 days on it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
