I demand that Adeodato Simó may or may not have written... > * Nathanael Nerode [Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:35:41 -0500]: >> To work out which libraries you're linked to which you don't actually >> need, ldd -u <executable or library> is invaluable.
> This seems like not the case _at all_ to me (the "invaluable" bit): > % ldd -u /usr/lib/amarok/amarokapp > Unused direct dependencies: [snip; list contains some libs which _are_ directly used by the binary] > If this has an explanation (other than bogus ones like "some other > dependency links against libpq.so.4", which I don't think it's the case, > but mentioning as an example), please be my guest. <AOL>. Doing that for gxine causes libxine and libsmjs (for example) to be listed, and I don't see anything else which gxine requires which uses them. > For now, I plan on sticking to Henning Makholm's "libneeded" lintian check: [snip] A link would have been nice, although this happens to be trivially findable. For the record, it's the subject of <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/340934>. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling 2*1=2. 2/1=2. Therefore, * and / are the same operation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
