Re: checklib
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,
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