On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: >> > What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? >> > >> > The answer is mainly unwanted libraries being linked in as a result >> > of using pkg-config (and various other -config variants), though there >> > are other, lesser, culprits. The pkg-config .pc files for gtk, gnome >> > and other libraries add in many libraries, most of which aren't >> > typically needed. >> > >> > The solution: fix the .pc files! >> > >> > Using --as-needed is merely papering over the actual root problem. >> > It "fixes" the symptoms, but it's not addressing the actual cause. >> > The number of packages providing broken .pc files is not large, and >> > the number breaking due to relying on this brokenness is likely >> > just as small. >> >> I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. >> >> Check out http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml >> >> --as-needed has saved tons of time for upgrades like Cairo in Gentoo, >> where Cairo had been linked to glitz which is now useless and gone. > > Not a problem, if Cairo was properly exposing the dep. > >> So >> when people upgraded Cairo, all the software that linked against it >> (and also unnecessarily linked against glitz) > > Why did it get linked against glitz? That's where the problem is.
I think because -lglitz was in cairo's .pc file. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=tex5afxojxthnva0wcvrha9b-njkem7dnc...@mail.gmail.com
