> 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 ... --as-needed ... -lintl collect2 is supposedly part of GCC. And what passes --as-needed is supposedly gcc. I was told on IRC that generally --as-needed is not the default. For the linker I guess. Although I wasn't able to confirm it. The option is supposedly defined here: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=ld/lexsup.c;h=dad3b6059edfe1fe31f46c454fdc90d55b0aed5b;hb=ec6f962151998434f9cc743386f2a49a1ce1a0f6#l295 But I don't see the default value, and where it's used. And also it looks like gcc started to pass --as-needed to the linker since 5.x/6.x. Am I missing something? > The GNU linker can be configured to default to --as-needed or not, and > different distros use different defaults. Can you tell me briefly how it's configured? Is there a config? Regards, Yuri
