On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:03, Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:45:06PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:01:19PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > [...] > > I checked the history of the Fedora package which adds these flags, and > > it seems like --as-needed was added for: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveExcessiveLinking > > > > Removing -Wl,--as-needed fixes the problem. However I'm still unclear > > about this. Is Fedora wrong? Is hivex using gnulib wrongly? Is > > gnulib wrong? > > We also build everything with --as-needed by default, but > gnulib does the right thing nowadays by using > -Wl,--push-state -Wl,--no-as-needed -lpthread -Wl,--pop-state > instead of plain -lpthread. > libtool can "helpfully" reorder those flags so they don't do anything though. Cheers, mwh
