Re: pkg-config and library dependencies

2007-12-24 Thread Alexander Nedotsukov
Ed Schouten wrote: Hello everyone, This morning I ran a `readelf -d' on an application that I maintain ... I've added a bunch of patches for the ports I use for audio/herrie. I didn't file any PR's yet, because I'd like to hear your opinions on this matter. Are my findings correct? Roger

Re: pkg-config and library dependencies

2007-12-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:21:49 +0100): > It turns out that my configure script added some unneeded -lfoo's, so I > removed those, but there were still a lot of libraries that got added by > pkg-config and friends. It turns out that a lot of those .pc's add > rub

pkg-config and library dependencies

2007-12-22 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello everyone, This morning I ran a `readelf -d' on an application that I maintain (audio/herrie) and I saw that my application depends on a lot of libraries that the application doesn't use anyway, but get pulled in recursively. If I understand correctly, this is bad behaviour. If your applicat