Re: [Fink-devel] ATK and GTK

[David L. <doc...@ve...>]

On 18 May, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:

	Thank you, Mr. Macks for providing a happily detailed answer to my question.  Naturally, now that i know more i have some more [and hopefully more focused] questions.

> Using -dead_strip on a binary FOO prunes libs
> that are not actually used to resolve symbols called from FOO.

	I ended up taking that out because A) i got the impression that this is a test procedure and shouldn't be part of the released product and B) it gave me a compiler error under Tiger.

Q1:  Does fink have an official policy regarding how long we continue to support 10.4?

> That cuts down the Depends (runtime requirements) but
> still means you need the full BuildDepends (in order to have the
> published flags work at compile-time).

	That sounds appealing.

Q2:  But until i re-implement the stripping, it seems i still have to Depend upon a -shlib for every BuildDepend, right?

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