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Bug#719806: lintian: Change in binutils produce E: library-not-linked-against-libc for C++ compiled with -Wl, --as-needed



¡Hola Niels!

El 2013-08-15 a las 16:28 +0200, Niels Thykier escribió:
> > After the binutils 2.23.52.20130612-1 entered the archive lots of C++ programs
> > that don't explicitly use the libc produce:
> > E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> > messages. This issue was first reported to binutils in #712081, but the
> > upstream developers claim its working as intended (when only weak symbols are
> > used there is no strict dependency).

> Do you have a reference to upstream's claim for reference?

Thanks for the quick reply.

The actual quote is:
"""
I think it is quite reasonable.  After all, linking without the
library in question will succeed, and that will leave undefined weak
symbols undecorated.
"""
Available in:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-07/msg00001.html

Which is referenced in the closing message in #712081.

Happy hacking,
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