Hello Heiko et al, On 2/6/19 9:39 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: > I darkly remember this came up in the distant past and I'm not entirely > sure about why it never happened
Well, in the even more distant past at least, --as-needed used to break a significant number of packages - sometimes quite stealthily and in non-obvious ways. There have been long discussions about this in Gentoo. You'll find one of those threads here and, of course, it's pure coincidence it's an email by one of our own... https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/473ee6d31ba0b8bfff114d4f15c6117e Somewhat later things were still somewhat problematic: https://sigquit.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/why-asneeded-doesnt-work-as-expected-for-your-libraries-on-your-autotools-project/ Some more examples: https://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking#Unresolved_symbols_in_shared_libraries In 2010, that other distro enabled --as-needed by default. Almost a decade later, things have probably settled down enough for us to do the same. :-) Best regards, Wulf _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
