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Re: Why are we linking with --as-needed?
From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 02:39:12 +0200
[Less than 6000 mails in my Wireshark backlog mailbox] On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:36:41PM -0500, Jeff Morriss wrote:
On 01/21/2016 10:17 PM, Guy Harris wrote:The GNU linker documentation says of the --as-needed flag --as-needed --no-as-needed
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About all I could find for a reason were bugs such as https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1677 complaining that Wireshark didn't build with --as-needed. So why is it useful that it be built - or, at least, buildable - with --as-needed? (It's obviously not *necessary* as not all platform support that capability.)I thought I remembered seeing (back around the time of bug 1677) a web page explaining why it was a Good Idea. About all I can find at the moment is this one: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/As-needed
IIRC, the link sums it up pretty well - with this option we specify all dependencies explicitely. Ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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