Re: [Bug-gsl] gsl with cblas patch

[Brian Gough]

At Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:46:03 +0000,
Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> I originally did the patch because a lot of Gentoo users have
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,as-needed". Really the gain when linking gsl with as-needed
> is not as much as for other packages, apart from reducing the final
> shared lib of 3Mb.
> 
> There may be a better way to make sure that gsl links with as-needed
> than the proposed patch. Also switching dynamically the cblas
> library at run time is not allowed because of the cblas library soname
> added at link time (added by @CBLAS_LINK_LIBS@ in libgsl_la_LIBADD).

I think the ideal solution to this would be if --as-needed could
resolve symbols from regular objects recursively rather than going
only 1-level deep.

-- 
Brian Gough