Comment # 13 on bug 1182252 from Martin Li������ka

(In reply to Richard Biener from comment #12)
> For sure in case the shared object dlopens plugins for example that use
> pthreads
> it's wrong to elide -lpthread.  --as-needed is prone to breaking this kind
> of special links.

All right, I've made a submit request that does that.

> 
> Note that libpthread is actually a linker script:
> 
> /* GNU ld script
>    Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
>    the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
> OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf64-x86-64)
> GROUP ( /lib64/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpthread_nonshared.a )
> 
> so it should eventually be possible to elide --as-needed here in the script
> in some way?
> 
> Or simply add SUSE_ASNEEDED=0 in the spec file (or drop this long-standing
> patch).

Do you mean dropping the binutils-build-as-needed.diff patch completely?
Btw. why did we start using it? What was the motivation, a smaller number of
package dependencies?

Looking at openSUSE:Factory, the number of packages that disable the feature is
following:
$ grep ASNEEDED * | wc -l
87