I understand why libraries, specifically I'm talking about the nvidia-ml.so lib, are required to run tuxclocker, but why are they needed just to build it? Why aren't the headers enough? I can see that meson is invoking the --no-undefined switch, so it's not going to work with any headers alone but needs the whole library, but WHY? Can this be changed? It's kinda the whole point of a shared library that you can build against the header and not need the actual library in your app.

I ask this because, we have a serious problem where we're unable to package tuxclocker, because it requires a source of the nvidia packages, and those aren't licensed to any public build services, only from nvidia themselves. This means you can't have any RPM-based distros building tuxclocker, with it the way it is now (because RPMs are built with no network connection, so you can't just go download the libs and install them, you have to have them packaged, and because of licensing, we can't). So fedora and suse are out, at the very least. It would be cool to fix that.