Re: [i386] Why g++ _always_ link an executable with libm.so?

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:06:51 -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Then write a better collect2 which only links in the libraries which
> are needed and have it find the needed libraries without supplying
> the option to link the library (yes this is on the TODO page of gcc).

I thought there was already an option for this in ld, --as-needed or
something.

I also find it strange (broken) that a c++ app that doesn't use any libm
symbols is linked to it anyway. Why does it matter? If stdc++ needs it
then fine, but the link tree should look like:

a.out
  - libc.so.6
  - libstdc++.so.6
       - libm.so.6
       - libc.so.6

and so on. Why does the link tree not look how you'd intuitively expect it
to?