On 2019/02/14 10:08, cdr....@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking that samba isn't the issue here (apart from its need > for a gazillion libraries). I can reproduce the problem with a > simple program that needlessly links in all the samba required libs. > Although, perhaps the use of --as-needed is not correct.
as-needed *is* helping though - try it without -Wl,--as-needed and your time will probably double.