Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems, > IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be > fixed any time soon.
Which in most cases they won't be. Hell, I'm an upstream maintainer for one case where *I'm* not going to fix it, because it's just too annoying to try to get Libtool to not link a binary with the dependencies of its shared library when they're both built from the same source tree. On this one, I side with many upstreams: "fixing" this is more likely to make the build system buggy on other operating systems and is not actually a good idea unless all of the libraries the package uses support a facility like pkgconfig (which is something that upstream is often not in control of). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4y2rvxw....@windlord.stanford.edu
