Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems,
> IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be
> fixed any time soon.
Which in most cases they won't be. Hell, I'm an upstream maintainer for
one case where *I'm* not going to fix it, because it's just too annoying
to try to get Libtool to not link a binary with the dependencies of its
shared library when they're both built from the same source tree.
On this one, I side with many upstreams: "fixing" this is more likely to
make the build system buggy on other operating systems and is not actually
a good idea unless all of the libraries the package uses support a
facility like pkgconfig (which is something that upstream is often not in
control of).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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