Question regarding devel/libexecinfo

[tuaris]

I've seen some Makefiles use devel/libexecinfo as a dependency by adding the following to the LIBS variable:

-l execinfo

Is this necessary? My program builds and seems to run okay with or without it.

 

[freesbies]

I would recommend you to install devel/libexecinfo since it's required by many Linux programs and thus you'll avoid weird errors.