Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >> Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit :
> >> > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get
> >> > there any sooner.
> >> What if there is no problem?
> >> For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others,
> >> -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this is perfectly intentional.
> > Just because it's intentional doesn't mean it isn't absurd and wrong.
> What happens for a user who (however absurd or insane he might be to
> try this with gtk+) tries to link his application statically?
Not that you should link statically with gtk (this yields the classic
problem of internal ABI skew when statically linking with a library that
uses dlopen), but pkg-config --static does exactly this.
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