On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 13:53 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > >> A workaround is to add -Wl,--as-needed to LDFLAGS, Gentoo has a > >> document about that here: > >> > >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml > >> > >> Please note that using --as-needed can cause other (worse) problems. > > > > Just curiosity, what kind of problems can be caused from using --as-needed? > > My memory of this is vague, searching the BTS I found these though: > > http://bugs.debian.org/379748 > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11056.html > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/10946.html > http://bugs.debian.org/502083 > http://bugs.debian.org/320697 > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > In that case would I be right in summarizing this up as --as-needed causes issues only when dlopen is used where the dlopen'd library requires symbols that are linked in via -lsomelibrary? -- Chow Loong Jin
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