[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/grpc: fix build on ubuntu gcc 4.8

[Michael Nosthoff <buildroot@heine.tech>]

gcc 4.8 on ubuntu 14.04 does some broken optimization at link-time
which causes grpc to create a grpc_cpp_plugin which quits because
of a failing assertion. The created plugin is itself used during
compilation which lets the build fail.
With the added -Wl,--no-as-needed flag the LTO is disabled and grpc
compiles successfully.

fixes:
- http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b554f6f2fb66892273f7520ad6e36923557b229e
- http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/3ebb2880b9b3fd5154979016391dde897e2c039c
- http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/c2078e821e0728fe980be2c849c25d82e791a4c2

Signed-off-by: Michael Nosthoff <buildroot@heine.tech>
---
 package/grpc/grpc.mk | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/grpc/grpc.mk b/package/grpc/grpc.mk
index 2114f98e40..4db309d4e9 100644
--- a/package/grpc/grpc.mk
+++ b/package/grpc/grpc.mk
@@ -72,5 +72,12 @@ HOST_GRPC_CONF_OPTS = \
 	-DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
 	-DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package
 
+#With gcc 4.8 (at least on ubuntu) there is a bug in LTO which breaks the linkage of
+#the grpc_cpp_plugin with libprotobuf and pthread. This additional flag fixes this.
+ifeq ($(BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9),)
+HOST_GRPC_CONF_OPTS += \
+	-DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="$(HOST_LDFLAGS) -Wl,--no-as-needed"
+endif
+
 $(eval $(cmake-package))
 $(eval $(host-cmake-package))
-- 
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