[WebKit-devel] Packaging for Debian

[Urs Wolfer]

On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:44:48 Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 18.25:02 Michael Howell wrote:
> > >  * linker flags:  Debian's library dependency scripts detected that
> > > webkit is probably linked unnecessarily against some libraries, see the
> > > warnings below.  How can I pass --as-needed to the linker to avoid
> > > these?  (They're libraries that are probably installed in any case due
> > > to other dependencies in KDE so it's not a bad problem, but I'd really
> > > like to keep my dependencies as clean as possible.)  Passing
> > > -DCMAKE_LD_FLAGS=... seems to be ignored or overridden.
> >
> > Try using CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed
>
> Ok, this worked for me.
>
> Dependencies that were dropped from the library package because no symbols
> were ever used:
> libqt4-dbus, libqt4-svg, libqt4-xml
>
> Most dependencies are dropped from the kpart itsel; aside from the
> webkitkde library, qtcore and kdelibs are the only remaining dependency.

I cannot change ynthing here... Looks like these libs are dependencies of libs 
we are linking agains (most probably in kdelibs).

> I don't know enough about linking KDE stuff and writing cmake rules to
> really go into this (the proper fix would be to avoid linking to those
> unneeded libraries in the first place), but OTOH --as-needed works just
> fine and the libraries are, as I've said, probably installed on every
> system through other KDE dependencies anyway, so it's no big deal.


Bye
urs
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/webkit-devel/attachments/20090614/b6f2b09b/attachment.sig