Re: ld --as-needed (math/gnumeric110 has unnecessary dependencies)

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

 >> According to upstream's website, (at least) lib{bonobo{,ui},gnomeui}
 >> and ORBit2 are not needed. Attached patch seems to work well for
 >> me; no build- or run-time errors occur. It would be nice if someone
 >> could double-check and/or commit this or something similar.

> Thanks, good catch -- committed and PKGREVISION bumped.
>  Thomas

Adding --as-needed option to the GNU linker may allow to detect this
kind of problems automatically at bulk build time. Thoughts?

0 ~>cat my.c                                                                    
       
#include <stdio.h>

void five (void);

void five (void)
{
        printf ("5\n");
}

0 ~>gcc -DPIC -fPIC -shared -o libmy1.so my.c -lcompat -lutil -lm

0 ~>gcc -DPIC -fPIC -Wl,--as-needed -shared -o libmy2.so my.c -lcompat -lutil 
-lm

0 ~>ldd ./libmy1.so
./libmy1.so:
        -lutil.7 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.7
        -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
        -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0

0 ~>ldd ./libmy2.so
./libmy2.so:
        -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

0 ~>

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.