[fedfs-utils] [PATCH] Makefile: Specify as-needed when building executables
David Disseldorp
ddiss at suse.de
Wed Jun 26 04:26:47 PDT 2013
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:17:40 -0400
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com> wrote:
> The "--as-needed" linker flag reduces the number of unused objects
> and dependencies in an executable, making it smaller and faster to
> load.
>
> Some distributions implicitly specify "--as-needed" when linking
> their package builds. My builds on Fedora appears not to.
>
> To catch build problems before they are committed, let's explicitly
> specify --as-needed.
>
> References:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml#doc_chap1
>
> https://sigquit.wordpress.com/tag/gnu-libtool/
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de>
Cheers, David
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