[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
...
> >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
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