'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 12/03/12 17:01 did gyre and gimble: > The recent build problems introduced me to the --as-needed linker > option. The as-needed behavior sounds sensible to me, so I wonder why we > don't use it by default? Mostly due to Lennart not liking it IIRC (or was that -Wl,no-undefined?) All of our distro packages are build with as-needed and no-undefined options anyway (via various libtool hacks IIRC) and can be disabled on a per-package basis via some macros. So generally speaking I'm in favour of this if at all possible. (I've personally had --as-needed option disabled in my packages despite distro policy for years as it caused issues long ago and I never actually turned it back on!) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
