[patch] Fix "make check" failure to build on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 01/18/2016 04:41 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Adhemerval Zanella
>> <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this tied to an specific make/binutils/gcc version that only shows itself
>>> on Ubuntu 14.04?
>>
>> That seems likely
> 
> I looked some more. What's happening is that this gcc driver adds
> '--as-needed' at the beginning of the link command line. With that
> --as-needed there, the problem reproduces with current trunk  binutils
> (and probably any other version of binutils).
> 
> You should be able to reproduce this as well with:
> 
>   gcc -Wl,--as-needed ./foo.so t.c
> 
> P.S. To be clear, I don't care if this patch goes in after the hard
> freeze is lifted, though it's trivially correct and may help anyone
> with similarly configured GCC.

This should go in now.

Cheers,
Carlos.