[sane-devel] [PATCH] Make existing Makefile.in's automake compatible

[Julien BLACHE]

"Chris Bagwell" <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote:

>> If, along the way, we could make it so that each backend only gets
>> linked to the relevant libraries (without resorting to --as-needed),
>> that'd be definitely great. I'm doing that with a monster patch right
>> now and I'm looking forward to simplifying that :p
>
> Mind emailing me this monster patch for my reference?

It's in the debian package :)

> I've done this on another project to clean up warnings reported by debian's
> deblint util and most the work is in configure script.

Keep in mind that linking every shared object against all the
libraries was done for a reason, and losing that will break on
ancient/legacy systems (proprietary Unices, though old ones now I
think/hope. If there are any users... speak up)

> Debian has a web page somewhere with build logs that reports the unneeded
> libraries.  I'll have to dig that page up for sane as it helps in this task.

You won't find anything there due to what I wrote above ;) 

JB.

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