Reducing library dependancies

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 01 August 2008 15:40:10 John Tapsell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I have found that the more libraries a program links against, the
> slower the start up time.  This is obvious, but it was surprising just
> how big this effect can be.
>
>   It would be good to go through all the kde apps and make sure we
> don't link against unnecesary libraries anywhere.
>
>   Does anyone know how to get a list of libraries that a program links
> against but doesn't actually use?  I've been playing about with  'ldd
> -u'  to list 'unused direct dependancies' but this doesn't seem to
> produce sensible answers at all.  (For example it's telling me that
> ksysguard doesn't need to link against any Qt or KDE programs!)

You could just use the linker flag --as-needed.

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