On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 09:57:35PM -0500, Jos? Miguel Parrella Romero wrote:

> tags 540599 + upstream
> thanks
> 
> Igor,
> 
> Do you think we can drop dependencies (and linking) on libdl in 0.7.*
> releases of nginx? It seems the main binary isn't using libdl at all.

nginx does not use libdl by itself, however, on some platforms (Solaris <10
and Linux) libdl is required by OpenSSL. It seems that on Linux libdl
is required only if nginx is built statically with OpenSSL.

> Thanks for your time and work,
> 
> -- 
> Jos? Miguel Parrella Romero (bureado)                 PGP: 0x005C3B82
> Debian Developer                                Caracas, VE/Quito, EC

> From: Josц╘ Miguel Parrella Romero <bure...@debian.org>
> To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#540599: nginx doesn't seem to use dlopen() anymore, uselessly 
> links to dl
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> Package: nginx
> Version: 0.7.59-1
> 
> It seems that nginx doesn't need to link libdl.so anymore, as per
> dpkg-shlibdeps warning:
> 
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libdl.so.2 could be avoided if
> "debian/nginx/usr/sbin/nginx" were not uselessly linked against it (they
> use none of its symbols).
> 
> I didn't find any reference to dlopen() in both 0.7.59 or 0.7.61, but I
> think we should still contact upstream on this.
> 
> If we don't need it, we should edit auto/os/features accordingly.
> 
> -- 
> Jos? Miguel Parrella Romero (bureado)                 PGP: 0x005C3B82
> Debian Developer                                Caracas, VE/Quito, EC
> 
> 


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