[Rivet] --no-as-needed only exists for ELF linkers

[Andy Buckley]

Precisely! Please add :-)

On 23/07/13 16:35, James Monk wrote:
> while we're on the subject of niggly little build snafus, I've noticed that the yaml-cpp lib path probably needs to be added to rivetenv.sh.in.  This is exactly the sort of thing we want to iron out for a 2.0 release, so I guess it's ok to add that to trunk this time!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
> 
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> On 22 Jul 2013, at 21:54, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 
>> Just checking up on this... and thanks to hg blame I know it's Hendrik
>> who added that flag ;-) What was the motivation for it? For all other
>> flags we check them first via the configure script... do we really
>> require --no-as-needed in plugin building on Linux?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 17/07/13 16:01, James Monk wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The linker flag --no-as-needed has been added to the rivet-buildplugin script recently.  As far as I know, this only exists on Linux, certainly it causes my linker to fail on OS X.  
>>>
>>> Can we add a check for OS X as already occurs for the shared library flags, and revert to the old behaviour in that case?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN
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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN