On 06/28/2010 10:35 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:39:44 +0530 > Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> There's a tracker bug for this, and the problems still remaining are: >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=129413&hide_resolved=1 > > You've forgotten "make --as-needed not break correct code by making the > linker ignore explicit instructions from a program author to link two > things together". Until you do that, --as-needed is in the same > category as -ffast-math. >
And we can't be held hostage by few packages (marginal cases), that's why we have function called $(no-as-needed) in flag-o-matic.eclass to disable the behavior for these packages. I.e. your point is moot. - Samuli
