Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com> writes:
> No. What I was saying (and I'm sorry if it came out wrong) is this: say I
> have a library which needs another library for some of its routines. If I
> link in  this library, but don't use any of the routines which need that
> other library, why does the program need to have it linked in (or have its
> absense be an error)?

"that is the way of ELF shared libraries."

ELF shared libraries should link against all libraries that any of the
routines that they contain depend on.


cgd