On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:09:13AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:53:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le vendredi 01 avril 2005 à 02:34 -0600, Ron Johnson a écrit : > > > What are the opinions of d-d's of --as-needed? > > > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17287 > > > > According to this thread, the number of dependencies can sometimes > > > be slashed drastically. > > > I'm moving all my packages to use it. > > Please don't. Last I knew, this option was still labelled *experimental* > upstream -- there's no possible damage that stray lib dependencies can do to > sarge that competes with the certain damage of having *missing* library > dependencies.
For the record, it isn't actually labelled as experimental upstream - but there have been some problems with it, and they were fixed in versions of binutils not yet included in Debian. I second Steve's advice; if you want to use this ld feature, wait a little longer. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]