[LIP] Restricting LD to strictly required symbols only

Hi,

I am porting an application to linux and has landed into a rather unique 
situation.

The product builds around 60+ shared libraries and 12 programs. I am done with 
creating libraries.

Problem is when I start linking the first program the dependency hits where it 
should not(ideally)

GNU ld asks for libB following the dependency chain like, program->libA->libB. 
Trouble is I know that program does not use libB at all but some functions in 
libA do depend upon it. 

The chain is getting rather long and I am really short of listing all 60+ 
libraries on ld commandline.

Can't I make ld bit smart here?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
 Shridhar


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