-Wl,--as-needed

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On thing I know for sure is --as-needed having occasionally failed due
> to bugs somewhere.

> ATM, IMO, --as-needed is a promise and probably works in many cases,
> but ... one counter example (which I am 99% sure can be found - I one
> had a code example, I don't have anymore) suffices to prove it as "too
> unreliable".

What happens when it fails? Do you get all unnecessary dependendencies
back in (which would not be worse than what there is there today), or
do you suddenly start missing true dependencies?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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