Hi Manoj, On Wed, 30 May 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > When checklibs was run, it would report > libbar-dev, libbaz-dev, unneeded; looking at foo > libfoo-dev, libbaz-dev, unneeded; looking at bar > libfoo-dev, libbar-dev, unneeded; looking at baz > > End result: Uneedded: libfoo-dev, libbar-dev, and libbaz-dev > > Since that is patently wrong, the version of checklibs I looked > at produced meaningless output -- for any package that had shared > objects whose compile flags were not identical.
What Guillem said is that checklib also indicated binaries which are linked against a library without using any of its symbols. Thus the binary shouldn't have been linked against it in the first place. That link has a cost in "load time" that can be avoided. checklib is still useful for this. > The original site where I got the old implementation > (http://greek0.net/div/checklib.tar.gz) from is 404's now; the alioth > checklib project has published nothing. First rule of free software: > publish early, publish often. Aurélien Gérôme published a copy of the tarball he had: http://www.roxor.cx/debian/checklib.tar.gz Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
