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Message-ID: <20121112085115.04ea916c@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:51:15 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] iproute2: drop libresolv On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:22:10 +0100 Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> wrote: > Hello! > > While building the iproute package in Debian I get warnings from > package helpers like this: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/iproute/sbin/tc debian/iproute/usr/bin/lnstat debian/iproute/bin/ip debian/iproute/bin/ss debian/iproute/sbin/bridge debian/iproute/sbin/rtmon were not linked against libresolv.so.2 (they use none of the library's symbols) > > The -lresolv in ./Makefile seems to come from pre-historic times (before > iproute2 git history, possibly from libc5/pre-glibc days). > I couldn't find out if/why there was any reason for linking to libresolv. > Does anyone know if there are any valid reasons for keeping it still? > > If not, I'd be happy to see it go.... while at it I also removed includes > of <resolv.h> which I also couldn't find any reason for, but this is > just an added bonus of the patch (and there are probably more unneeded > includes that could be dropped in the same sources). > > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> > Makes sense, applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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