The Evils of pkgconfig and libtool - Ulrich Drepper — LiveJournal
If you need more proof that this insane just look at some of the packages using it. I recently was looking at krb5-auth-dialog. The output of ldd -u -r on the original binary shows 26 unused DSOs. This can be changed quite easily: add -Wl,--as-needed to link line. Do this in case of this package…| udrepper.livejournal.com
