On Thursday 14 February 2008 15:25:40 Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> I noticed that checkLibraryWithHeader(), when it returns successfully
> adds the library to the overall environment. This is leading to extra
> linking on OSX that is causing problems. For instance, csladspa.so
> gets linked to libpng, but it does not use it. I would suggest to use
> as before, just CheckHeader( ) for all dependencies that are not
> for all SCons outputs.
>
> Is that OK. I have made the changes, will commit if everyone
> agrees (tomorrow).

Note that there is an autoadd parameter to CheckLibraryWithHeader which 
controls if the lib is added or not.
Another way to avoid this is to set the linkflag -Wl,--as-needed. This flag 
will cause gcc to drop any unneded links. This is what I'm using for the 
debian packages.

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Felipe Sateler