On Thursday 08 January 2009 11:55:03 Simon Josefsson wrote: > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > > On Thursday 08 January 2009 04:49:16 Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> > i explicitly pulled in the > >> > printf-posix module because i want a posix implementation on crappy > >> > systems. but i dont care if said systems have broken floating point > >> > implementations since i dont use floating point in my code. > >> > >> If this happens often enough, perhaps gnulib should have a > >> printf-posix-no-fp module that does what you want? > > > > i would certainly use it, but if i'm the only one expressing interest > > thus far, then maybe it isnt a hot issue. > > I see that some *printf objects from gnulib are linked into builds even > on glibc platforms. If that would be fixed by using a module > printf-posix-no-fp, I would use it. (My projects rarely use > float/double.) > > The code ends up in the *.a libraries, which sometimes is used to make > size-based decisions which library is the smallest, so it would be nice > to avoid this baggage.
on my setup, a few objects are still built by gnulib, but since they're in a .a and i dont actually use them, they dont get linked into the final image. i dont worry about what's in the .a in that case since it doesnt matter. -mike
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