On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:55:46 +0100 Andreas Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > I have a question to the patch provided by the package > app-portage/elt-patches, namely the file as-needed/2.4.3 > > Here I can see the following being added to ltmain.sh: > + -Wl,--as-needed|-Wl,--no-as-needed) > + deplibs="$deplibs $arg" > + continue > + ;; > + > > In my understanding the order must be the opposite otherwise it has no > effect to $deplibs, i.e. the line should be deplibs="$arg $deplibs". It's been like that in every version of the patch so it's probably like that for a reason though I don't know what that reason is. This is interesting as I gather the whole reason for the patch is that an unpatched libtool inserts the flag in the wrong place. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
