Re: --as-needed compile option?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:34 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> we've looked at this; one of the problems is that this needs to be a per
> package thing; there are valid setups where --as-needed breaks (eg apps
> that have plugins can break).

What kind of stuff do they do that breaks?  I assume that apps that use
dlopen() have error checking for it.  Are we talking about weak-linking
here or something? (weak linking AIUI == ld not resolving symbols until
they are actually used)

Dan