Re: [LIP] Restricting LD to strictly required symbols only

Shridhar Daithankar posted in linux-india-programmers:
> 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. 

If you are pretty sure that the functions you call in libA do not depend on
libB, then I guess you could hack the sources of libA to get rid of its
dependency on libB.

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

You might want to look at the GNU toolchain of autoconf/automake etc. that
would make all this simpler.

Binand



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