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From: "Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio" <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Unsupported --no-as-needed flag
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:22:37 +0100
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On 12/06/2015 11:55, Tom Barbette wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Patch http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/1056/ introduced the
> --no-as-needed flag, however on debian, and another ubuntu host, neithe=
r
> g++ 4.8 or 4.9 know this flag and leads to the error :
>
> g++: error: unrecognized command line option =E2=80=98--no-as-needed=E2=
=80=99
That is a correct error as it is not GCC but an LD flag.
To pass those flags through GCC you have to prefix them with -Wl, so for=20
this case it would be:
    -Wl,--no-as-needed

DPDK build framework does the prefixing automatically when it links=20
using GCC instead
of directly using LD.

Sergio
> Maybe this comes from a bad inclusion of the dpdk *mk files from my par=
t (
> https://github.com/MappaM/click/blob/master/userlevel/dpdk.mk )? But
> removing the line "--no-as-needed" mk/exec-env/linuxapp/rte.vars.mk sol=
ve
> my problem.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
>
> *Tom Barbette*
> University of Liege