Hi,
It looks like somewhere between gcc-5.3.0 and gcc-6.2.1 --as-needed
became the default:
https://gist.github.com/x-yuri/1b4c19891be50b2b8801689de1487009
In other words it looks like on Alpine Linux 3.4 -lintl always adds
libintl, on >= 3.5 only if some of its symbols are really needed.
Can y
> That's a linker option, and the linker is not part of GCC. Any change in
> linker behaviour is not because of a change in GCC.
Have you noticed what gcc does?
3.4: /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0/collect2 ... -lintl
3.5: /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.2.1/collect2
> Upstream GCC does (still) not default to adding `--as-needed` to the
> command line (except around libgcc). Some distros add patches which
> add `--as-needed` by default though. It looks like alpine is one of
> those distros. Maybe you should ask them instead of asking us. It
> looks like they ma
