[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Don't use --as-needed for every operating system

[Luca Barbato]

Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> Currently gcc (that is the first user of it) consider it working only for 
> Linux, because on at least FreeBSD and DragonFly it's not usable (by design).
> 
> The reason is that -pthread for libraries is a no-op, while on final 
> executables it brings in -lpthread, even if it does not resolve local 
> unresolved symbols, to link the libraries using pthreads themselves. 
> With --as-needed, the final link to libpthread is then discarded, resulting 
> in unusable libav* libraries.
> 

Which other os have similar behaviour?

lu

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Luca Barbato

Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero