Debian Developers - Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

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Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

Gabor Gombas

2006-09-28, 7:35 am

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:35:12PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:

> [**] I hope someone out there knows how a library maintainer can
> reliably determine this!

"Use the Source, Luke." For C, you should examine all functions marked
with __attribute__((__constructor__)) or
__attribute__((__destructor__)). For C++ you need to check every static
object as well.

Gabor

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