On 03/31/2010 05:55 PM, David Lowe wrote: > On 31 Mar, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > >> In case you didn't know, otool -L <FOO> is useful to find out what's >> being linked to by a binary, and dpkg -S <BAR> is useful to figure out >> what package provides a file (such as a dylib from the otool -L output). > > With me being a beginner at this, can it ever be the case that a > package got linked in due to poor configuration but is never actually used? >
Yes, it can, and often is. However, if it is linked then it is required at runtime, so you'll still need that Depends: line. If you want to go through removing those -l that are not really required, you certainly can, there is also a linker option that may help: -dead_strip_dylibs Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
