On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 09:01 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 19:11 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:21 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I don't really see why this should go in pkg-config... pkg-config isn't
> > where we set default link flags for the distribution, it's a way to
> > learn about specific libs.
> >
> > Why not just make ld do this by default, or put it in the rpm build
> > config? Is there something we need to know about specific libraries when
> > we decide whether we want as-needed?
>
> it can't be default realistically and is a per lib thing:
> making it default prevents the situation where an app links to a library
> in order to provide this service for plugins.
Just curious: What is wrong with the idea that the plugins link the
libraries they need?
Nils
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