Subject: Re: use of LDD in pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk?
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/29/2005 15:03:32
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Georg Schwarz wrote:

>> Also, please consider using objdump on platforms that have it instead of
>> ldd so it doesn't record recursively used libraries. Or does that matter?
>> I'd prefer that the REQUIRES= only listed the specific libraries as
>> NEEDED.

For example, ldd shows 38 libraries needed by my firefox-bin.

But "objdump -x" only shows 22 NEEDED entries.



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