At Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:46:03 +0000, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: > I originally did the patch because a lot of Gentoo users have > LDFLAGS="-Wl,as-needed". Really the gain when linking gsl with as-needed > is not as much as for other packages, apart from reducing the final > shared lib of 3Mb. > > There may be a better way to make sure that gsl links with as-needed > than the proposed patch. Also switching dynamically the cblas > library at run time is not allowed because of the cblas library soname > added at link time (added by @CBLAS_LINK_LIBS@ in libgsl_la_LIBADD).
I think the ideal solution to this would be if --as-needed could resolve symbols from regular objects recursively rather than going only 1-level deep. -- Brian Gough _______________________________________________ Bug-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gsl
