Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/4] Build vercmp without needing link to libalpm

On 05/05/10 14:45, Dan McGee wrote:

Include the object file directly from the libalpm version comparison code as it is the only thing we need. This drops the dependency of vercmp on libalpm and all of the stuff we know it drags in.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee ---

<snip> After applying the four patches from this patchset:

readelf -d src/util/vercmp

Dynamic section at offset 0xdfc contains 21 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libssp.so.0] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] ... libssp is part of gcc(-libs), so linking to that is probably not a disaster. But is it still not needed for the current Arch vercmp so may be worth looking into. This was of course using -Wl,--as-needed. The list of linked libraries is very long if that is not used (I discovered I had an unaltered makepkg-git.conf...). Maybe we should consider adding --as-needed by default (when supported). Almost ever system that can build pacman will support --as-needed. Allan