[Rivet] --no-as-needed only exists for ELF linkers

[Andy Buckley]

Just checking up on this... and thanks to hg blame I know it's Hendrik
who added that flag ;-) What was the motivation for it? For all other
flags we check them first via the configure script... do we really
require --no-as-needed in plugin building on Linux?

Andy


On 17/07/13 16:01, James Monk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The linker flag --no-as-needed has been added to the rivet-buildplugin script recently.  As far as I know, this only exists on Linux, certainly it causes my linker to fail on OS X.  
> 
> Can we add a check for OS X as already occurs for the shared library flags, and revert to the old behaviour in that case?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
> 
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