[Ecls-list] ecl is linking unnecessarily to libintl.so (at least on OpenSolaris)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kirkby at onetel.net> wrote:
> I'm sure you wont consider this a high priority, but ECL appears to be linking
> unnecessarily to libintl.so at least on OpenSolaris.
>
> An intersting blog post here
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/rie/entry/tt_dependencies_tt_define_what
>
> shows how to find out any unused libraries. The current version of ECL in Sage
> has 3 such unneeded libraries, but the latest git version has only one.
>
> See
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9943

I have always empirically found that use of sockets on *Solaris needed
that library to be linked in.  Are you claiming that changed in recent
version of OpenSolaris?  Which version?


-- Gaby