Subject: Re: using REQUIRES for libraries
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2004 11:31:46
Another question on same subject:

Should we use objdump (or other tool depending on platform) to output
NEEDED instead of using ldd for generating REQUIRES?

For example, ldd of firefox-bin on my system has 35 libraries.

But objdump -x only shows 21 NEEDED libraries.

The other extra libraries as shown by ldd are not important and may cause
problems on upgrades of the dependencies.

Any comments?

 Jeremy C. Reed

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