* Christian Ullrich wrote:
> I think I have a pretty good fix: Early in configure, see if the linker
> understands --no-copy-dt-needed-entries, or alternatively
> --no-add-needed (which is a deprecated name for the same thing). This is
> the "light" version of --as-needed: It does not discard unneeded
> libraries immediately, but ignores their dependencies. configure
> basically works as before, except that indirect dependencies cannot
> "hide" required libraries from it anymore.
Oh, I should have made this clearer: This works without any modification
to configure or anything else, so configure can still add --as-needed to
the build LDFLAGS.
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Christian