Re: ARC & GNOME [Was: How we make decisions...]

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:22:08 -0600, Billy Biggs wrote:
>      - Using `pkg-config --libs libgnome-2.0` on GNOME 2.2 brings in
>        liblinc, which is gone on GNOME 2.4 and up.

Yeah, this one is very annoying. New GNU linkers (after may or so) have an
option which will strip these at build time. apbuild also removes them
though its mechanism is a bit fragile. 

Unfortunately there are quite a lot of broken libraries out there which
don't fully specify their dependencies in the ELF headers (!!!) and
break unless you complete the set for them when compiling your own
program.