(In reply to Eero Tamminen from comment #0)
...
> X11 libraries, libglsl etc stuff brought in by libigt.

Sorry, that wasn't libglsl, but libgls (GNU Scientific Library).

Some food for thought:

The old autotools build did not have this problem since it:
 - was creating a static libigt library
 - yet ^^ would lead to slightly longer build times and overall larger bundle
 - ^^ would only pull the required dependencies into the linking process

For reference:
$ objdump -x /usr/bin/intel_gpu_top  | grep -w NEEDED
  NEEDED               libpthread.so.0
  NEEDED               libc.so.6


If it were me I would:
 - static link
 - drop all the extra rpath from the meson build
 - if size is an issue - enable LTO

The autotools build doesn't have this problem because in there intel-gpu-top is not linked against libigt.la, as nothing outside of tests/ should be. It looks like a bit of carelessness introduced the extra deps when writing the meson.build.

(In reply to Chris Wilson from comment #3)
> The autotools build doesn't have this problem because in there intel-gpu-top
> is not linked against libigt.la, as nothing outside of tests/ should be. It
> looks like a bit of carelessness introduced the extra deps when writing the
> meson.build.

Almost all the installed tools link it:

$ for i in intel*; do echo $i; readelf -d $i|grep libigt; done
/opt/install/bin/intel_aubdump
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_audio_dump
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_backlight
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_bios_dumper
/opt/install/bin/intel_display_crc
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_display_poller
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_dp_compliance
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_dump_decode
/opt/install/bin/intel_dump_gpu
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_error2aub
/opt/install/bin/intel_error_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_firmware_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_forcewaked
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_framebuffer_dump
/opt/install/bin/intel_gem_info
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel-gen4asm
/opt/install/bin/intel-gen4disasm
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_abrt
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_frequency
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_time
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_top
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gtt
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_guc_logger
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gvtg_test
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_infoframes
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_l3_parity
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_lid
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_opregion_decode
/opt/install/bin/intel_panel_fitter
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_perf_counters
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_reg
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_reg_checker
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_residency
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_sanitize_gpu
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_stepping
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_vbt_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_watermark
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]

One down, the rest left to an adventurous sole.

commit a350b9f9f606296b1599c3617c8530a8985709e2 (HEAD, upstream/master)
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Mar 26 13:26:26 2019 +0000

    tools/intel-gpu-top: Only link against igt_perf.la
    
    Fix the meson build to not link intel-gpu-top against the whole test
    infrastructure; it's a tool not a test!
    
    Reported-by: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110249
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

But first, it would be wise for Eero to confirm that does the trick,

$ ldd build/tools/intel_gpu_top 
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdf29f9000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f64a15b2000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f64a179d000)

intel_gpu_top works fine now.  Large difference in ldd output, and it's still small:
$ size intel_gpu_top 
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  21102	   1204	    304	  22610	   5852	/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_top


For this bug to be considered fixed, I think the rest of tools should be also fixed although I personally care only about the intel_gpu_top...

Following tools still link libigt:
-------------------------
for i in intel*; do
  echo $i;
  readelf -d $i | grep libigt;
done 2>/dev/null | awk '
/^intel/ {
  name=$1
}
/NEEDED.*libigt.so/ {
  print "-", name
}
'
------------------------
- intel_audio_dump
- intel_backlight
- intel_display_crc
- intel_display_poller
- intel_dp_compliance
- intel_error_decode
- intel_firmware_decode
- intel_forcewaked
- intel_gem_info
- intel_gpu_frequency
- intel_gpu_time
- intel_gtt
- intel_guc_logger
- intel_gvtg_test
- intel_infoframes
- intel_l3_parity
- intel_lid
- intel_panel_fitter
- intel_perf_counters
- intel_reg
- intel_reg_checker
- intel_residency
- intel_stepping
- intel_vbt_decode
- intel_watermark

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