On Fri, 30 May 2008 10:55:51 +0400
Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:
> В Чтв, 29/05/2008 в 11:02 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò пишет:
> > I'm afraid that it will turn, for complex libraries like libexpat
> > and users not using --as-needed, the message telling you the
> > program cannot be started with subtle crashes for symbol collision.
> 
> Is there any reason why --as-needed is not enabled "by default"?

--as-needed is fundamentally broken by design and causes legitimate code
to break.

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Ciaran McCreesh