Package: binutils-doc Version: 2.35.2-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Dave Love <dave.l...@manchester.ac.uk>
The Info and man pages for ld say "--no-as-needed restores the default behaviour", but the default changed at some stage to --as-needed. $ cc -shared -lm -o x.so $ lddtree x.so x.so => ./x.so (interpreter => none) $ cc -shared -Wl,--no-as-needed -lm -o x.so $ lddtree x.so x.so => ./x.so (interpreter => none) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled binutils-doc depends on no packages. binutils-doc recommends no packages. Versions of packages binutils-doc suggests: ii binutils 2.35.2-2 -- no debconf information