Re: [gentoo-dev] as-needed patch for ltmain.sh

[James Le Cuirot]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:55:46 +0100
Andreas Fink <finkandreas@×××.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a question to the patch provided by the package
> app-portage/elt-patches, namely the file as-needed/2.4.3
>
> Here I can see the following being added to ltmain.sh:
> +      -Wl,--as-needed|-Wl,--no-as-needed)
> +       deplibs="$deplibs $arg"
> +       continue
> +       ;;
> +
>
> In my understanding the order must be the opposite otherwise it has no
> effect to $deplibs, i.e. the line should be deplibs="$arg $deplibs".

It's been like that in every version of the patch so it's probably like
that for a reason though I don't know what that reason is. This is
interesting as I gather the whole reason for the patch is that an
unpatched libtool inserts the flag in the wrong place.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer