Re: Link requirements creep

Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> 1. Use  -Wl,--as-needed as linker flag.  Portability unknown...
>>    Can be autoconfed.
>>     
>
> This might actually be the best solution.  OS X has a similar disease
> but some trolling of the ld man page suggests that -dead_strip_dylibs
> might work there.  Taking this path would amount to assuming that all
> linkers we care about either have an equivalent switch or don't link
> unrequired libraries in the first place.
>
>
>   

Didn't we run into problems with this before?

cheers

andrew