[pulseaudio-discuss] [pulseaudio-commits] r2495 - /trunk/src/Makefile.am

[Colin Guthrie]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 04.06.08 09:14, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> 
>> The trouble was I had my systems pulse devel package installed and it 
>> didn't mess up the build when I tested it. When I submitted a patched 
>> mdv package to our build cluster (we enable --as-needed by default now) 
>> it spat out the error and I knew I had a problem and figured it out from 
>> there :)
> 
> /me thinks --as-needed is a bad idea. A really bad idea.

Not to try and go tooo far off topic for this list, but can you 
elaborate on why?

We have a very annoying amount of problems with overlinking and bogus 
package dependences which is also a very bad idea :( To give a trivial 
example, deprecating xcb-xlib.so as the lastest git master does, 
required half the distro to be rebuild depsite none of the other 
packages directly using this library...

Col