dmd's linking order

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm not a linker expert, but I found this page which describes the changes 
> and the reasoning:
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> See this post: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ToolchainTransition
>

That says the order-dependent  behavior is caused by --as-needed being 
default. I'm no linker expert either, but the description of the purpose 
of --as-needed sounds...goofy and pointless (although maybe it makes sense 
for C's lack of a proper module system?).

It can be disabled, apperently, by using --no-as-needed. That page tries to 
discourage people from doing that though, but the reason it gives seems 
vague. Personally, I'd wonder whether going along with --as-needed is really 
even worth doing. (Of course, if it turns out to be easy to fix the 
ordering, then we may as well.)