-Wl,--as-needed

[Thiago Macieira]

George Staikos wrote:
>> So why doesn't libgsl link to it!?
>
>  I noticed the same problem earlier.  This is a question for SuSE
> packagers I guess.

I had a similar problem with another library. I pointed it out to the 
Conectiva packagers, that a dependency was missing.

The reply was: the bug is upstream. I think this is the case here.

> Meanwhile I definitely didn't use 
> --enable-new-ldtags so I'm not sure how I have these flags if they
> require manually using that flag.

Some distributions enable --as-needed in their gcc's specs file. I guess 
this is the case here.

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