On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > However, not all applications uses those symbols in their current code, so > > they do not need to be linked against speex themselves.
> And therefore, the scripts generating dependency information for dynamically > linking to libshout should *not* list libspeex or libtheora, and > consequently there's no need for -Wl,--as-needed. (When statically linking, > -Wl,--as-needed is also irrelevant, because unused symbols from static libs > are already discarded.) > > Of course, correct dependencies will be pulled when requesting libshout. > No, currently the dependencies pulled in are overbroad. Please fix > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/shout.pc to list the dependent libraries in > "Requires.private", not in "Requires". ... also, -Wl,--as-needed is *not* a complete solution for the problems caused by generating extra -l arguments. Every -lfoo option passed to the linker requires the corresponding -dev package to be installed at build time; while it is a bug if the -dev packages don't declare their dependencies, the impact of such bugs (which do happen fairly often) would be limited to static linking if appropriately-constructed .pc files were available. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
