--as-needed, __init and libnl3 about libnl HOT 4 CLOSED

Just for history:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68902

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Thanks for the report, but there's not much we can do about it. We can't add a -Wl,--no-as-needed to our pkg-config file since we could disable --as-needed for legitimate use cases and we can't bound it with --push-state and --pop-state, since they don't work with gold.

Ideally, your distribution should fix their toolchain and don't silently drop libraries.

Other possible workarounds are adding --no-as-needed to your Makefile or using some symbol from the libnm-nf-3 library so that the DT_NEEDED won't get evicted.

from libnl.

I agree with Lubomir.

Doesn't seem right to do upstream because we don't know which options a potential user wants. Please add the linker option to your own Makefile where you link with libnl.

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Reported bug against linker: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19372

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