[jira] [Updated] (TS-1878) link libraries as needed on linux

["James Peach (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-1878?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

James Peach updated TS-1878:
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    Description: 
We should pass {{-Wl,--as-needed}} to the linker on Linux to get it to strip unused libraries. The equivalent Darwin option is {{-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs}}.

See also:
    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
    http://sigquit.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/why-asneeded-doesnt-work-as-expected-for-your-libraries-on-your-autotools-project/

  was:
We should pass {-Wl,--as-needed} to the linker on Linux to get it to strip unused libraries. The equivalent Darwin option is {-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs}.

See also:
    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
    http://sigquit.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/why-asneeded-doesnt-work-as-expected-for-your-libraries-on-your-autotools-project/

    
> link libraries as needed on linux
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TS-1878
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-1878
>             Project: Traffic Server
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build
>            Reporter: James Peach
>
> We should pass {{-Wl,--as-needed}} to the linker on Linux to get it to strip unused libraries. The equivalent Darwin option is {{-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs}}.
> See also:
>     http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
>     http://sigquit.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/why-asneeded-doesnt-work-as-expected-for-your-libraries-on-your-autotools-project/

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