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

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:48:46PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 > 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

I thought that behavior was the default (for ELF libs anyway) since
years and years ago?

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David A. Holland
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