Received: from pch.mit.edu (PCH.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.90]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id SAA02512; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:00:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pch.mit.edu (pch.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k59M0DOn016636 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:00:13 -0400 Received: from pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.83]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k59KOfHO006309 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:24:41 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k59KOk3k011624 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from raeburn.org (c-65-96-168-237.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[65.96.168.237]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060609202445011000o2a8e>; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:24:45 +0000 Received: from [18.101.0.231] (fwoosh.raeburn.org [18.101.0.231]) by raeburn.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k59KOjO6003370; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:24:45 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <89DA5A35-3527-44C0-8C38-F598BDE63625@raeburn.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ken Raeburn Subject: gld --as-needed not portable enough Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:24:44 -0400 To: krb5-bugs@mit.edu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Spam-Score: 6.988 X-Spam-Level: ****** (6.988) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-BY: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:30:04 -0400 X-Beenthere: krb5-bugs-incoming@mailman.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Sender: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu Errors-To: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 346 I had added the GNU linker option --as-needed to shlib.conf a while back for GNU/Linux targets. This is just to note that there are configurations still in use out there with GNU linkers old enough that --as-needed may not work. Since it's a minor optimization, it should probably be pulled until we can add a configure-time test. Ken