--as-needed

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:30:38AM +0200, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 23:33, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > It looks like Ac. And which libtool version (patches) are you using?
> thx. it is ac unpatched libtool.
> 
> > [1] still not perfect, as it's not possible to do
> > -Wl,-no-as-needed -lsome-lib -Wl,-as-needed -lother-lib
> > - but with unpatched libtool it doesn't work either)
> 
> i've seen this when compiled one kernel module, gcc (i think) did it 
> internally. other question is, did it work. i guess not if you say so.

With plain gcc calls it works; IIRC glibc build uses it.
Only libtool's arguments reordering messes such linking.


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