Bug#479427: epiphany-gecko: please reduce the number of dependencies by avoiding linking to some libs

[Raphael Geissert]

Hi,

2008/5/5 Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>:
> Le dimanche 04 mai 2008 à 13:02 -0500, Raphael Geissert a écrit :
>  > Based on the build log of your package, there are some dependencies that could
>  > be dropped if the binaries of your package were only linked to stuff it
>  > really needs. This is possible to determine thanks to the symbols
>  > dependencies system recently introduced in dpkg-dev.
>  >
>  > It is often as easy as adding some extra LDFLAGS:
>  > LDFLAGS += "-Wl,-z,defs,--as-needed"
>
>  This is not as simple, because -Wl,--as-needed is stripped out by
>  libtool when building the plugins, so we also need to apply an extra
>  patch. See bug#347650 for the details.

I wasn't aware of that problem, amazing it has lasted so long without
being fixed upstream.
Just wondering, have you tried to convince Kurt to apply your changes
on Debian's libtool. I mean, if there is no regression in Debian I
don't see "real" reasons (but sure there are some, like people
developing 'upstream' software in Debian with Debian's libtool also
targeted to other distros) not to do so.
Anyway, just reconsidering what I just said seems like there's no much
way around it unless it is fixed by upstream, or a 'libtool-deb'
package with that patch is shipped.


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