On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:12:49PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Hey. If we have a programmatic way of detecting this cases, why not > just fold that into the shlibdeps program, and be done with it? As pointed out by Russ Allbery, shlibdeps wouldn't do. It would be possible to stuff it into dh_strip or a new debhelper script, which just removes the unnecessary NEEDED entries. On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:39:29 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > Note that if a shared object has constructor and/or destructor functions > then there is NO WAY to automatically decide if it is needed or not, > even if it does not even provide exported symbols. That's one major problem, which is also the reason why I haven't implemented a dh_ script. AIUI the number of libraries using such tricks is minor, so it is unnerving that we can't use the dh_ method because of that. I don't see any solution though :-/ Cheers, Christian Aichinger
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