Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with
>> > shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs?
>>
>> If they aren't used by other programs, there's no need to produce a
>> library. Perhaps it's convienient to create static libraries during
>> compilation and link against these, but shared libraries are of no use.
> What if there are many binaries (10s of them) in your package, and you
> want to use shared libs purely for resource efficiency (disk and
> memory)?
You're right, that's an other reason for a shared library.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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