[tlbuild] linking against expat ... why

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 26 Aug 2009, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> some shared library dependencies shown by "ldd" are indirect, caused by
> other shared libraries (e.g. libfontconfig).

Yes.

> could you run
> 
>   strings -a xetex | grep '\.so'
> 
> to see which are the direct shared library dependencies?

You are RIGHT! Great.

But then, why the hell when I build the xetex binary I have:
$ strings -a xetex | grep '\.so'
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libfontconfig.so.1
libm.so.6
libc.so.6
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libpthread.so.0


But:
$ strings  -a Master/bin/x86_64-linux/xetex | grep '\.so'
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libfontconfig.so.1
libexpat.so.1
libfreetype.so.6
libz.so.1
libm.so.6
libc.so.6


So we have libexpat in there?

Of all the xetex binaries we have rogue deps on libexpat in:
	mips-irix	(.so.1)
	sparc-linux	(.so.0)
	x86_64-linux	(.so.1)


Can we fix that, at least for x86_64-linux that would be fine!

Best wishes

Norbert

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