Andy Ross wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
>  > I had to make the following change in order to get the 'fgfs' binary
>  > linked on FreeBSD. 'libosgSim' apparently references some functions
>  > like "osgText::readFontFile" which areimplemented in 'libosgText'

> Which begs the question: why on earth does OSG insist on installing
> twelve (12!) distinct, inter-dependent shared libraries instead of
> just one?  That's a huge waste of runtime linker cycles, and a big
> pain for developers.

I guess the intention is to allow developers to link only the libraries
whose functions they actually call. Think of some application that
needs - just as a stupid example - only functions from libosgText but
none from libosgSim ?

Cheers,
        Martin.
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