[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 -- Joerg Mayer <jma...@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-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe