Bug 167831

Summary: Do not link libtiff to libstdc++
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: dann
Component: libtiffAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
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Description dann 2005-09-08 17:29:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
libtiff.so is linked to libstdc++
(try ldd /usr/lib/libtiff.so)

applications that link to libtiff (like for example emacs) then are also linked
to libstdc++ and must suffer a little performance penalty on startup and have an
extra 700KB+ mapping at runtime. 

The only reason this is done is because of 2 little functions:
extern  TIFF* TIFFStreamOpen(const char*, std::ostream *);
extern  TIFF* TIFFStreamOpen(const char*, std::istream *);

AFAICT (at least on my FC4 installation) nothing uses the above 2 functions. 

It might be a better idea to put these 2 functions in a separate library
libtiffxx so that all the C applications that use libtiff don't have to be
linked to libstdc++. This is not a binary compatible change though.

There is a --disable-c++ flag that disables adding the c++ functions to libtiff.so

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libtiff-3.7.1-6
Comment 1 dann 2005-09-11 16:13:48 UTC 
It looks like this issue has been solve upstream starting with tiff-3.7.2

tiff-3.7.3/ChangeLog says: 

2005-01-11  Andrey Kiselev  <dron>
[snip]

        * libtiff/Makefile.am: Place the C++ stream API in the separate
        library called libtiffxx to avoid unneeded dependencies. Probably
        there will be more C++ API in the future. As per bugs

        http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733

        and

        http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2005-09-29 19:22:18 UTC 
Not worth an FC4 update, fixed in rawhide