[Numpy-discussion] Defining a base linux-64 environment [was: Should I use pip install numpy in linux?]

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Julian Taylor <
jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 09.01.2016 12:52, Robert McGibbon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I went ahead and tried to collect a list of all of the libraries that
> > could be considered to constitute the "base" system for linux-64. The
> > strategy I used was to leverage off the work done by the folks at
> > Continuum by searching through their pre-compiled binaries
> > from https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/linux-64/ to find shared
> > libraries that were dependened on (according to ldd)  that were not
> > accounted for by the declared dependencies that each package made known
> > to the conda package manager.
> >
>
> do those packages use ld --as-needed for linking?
> there are a lot libraries in that list that I highly doubt are directly
> used by the packages.
>

It is also a common problem when building packages without using a "clean"
build environment, as it is too easy to pick up dependencies accidentally,
especially for autotools-based packages (unless one uses pbuilder or
similar tools).

David
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