On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:16:44PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> My Debian wheezy LTS system is still on glibc 2.13; and LTS
> distros may use older glibc, still, so lets not unnecessarily
> break things out-of-the-box.
> 
> We seem to assume Linux is using glibc in our Makefiles anyways,
> so I don't think this will introduce new breakage for users of
> alternative libc implementations.

This is a good idea.  If it's broken with Debian wheezy, it will also be
broken for RHEL/CentOS 6.  People who really want the slimmest linkage
can use the -Wl,--as-needed flag.
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