On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:52 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > ----- "Jussi Lehtola" <jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > So is --as-needed within the current default flags? > > > > As far as I know, no. The default will still be --no-as-needed. > > That's correct. This change does not affect --as-needed at all. > > > The --as-needed flag will link libraries if > > A) they define symbols required by object files > > B) those symbols are still undefined when the library is checked > > That's correct. In other words, the libfoo.so DSO will only be used at > runtime if the presence of -lfoo at link time actually had any effect on > what symbols got resolved to what. But --as-needed is not really apropos > in this thread. OK, if RPM picks only the libraries that are actually used in auto-requires, then there's no connection. Otherwise the situation would be a whole lot different, since the requires might have some bloat. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
