[Issue 15574] New: wrong order of linker arguments breaks with as-needed

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15574

          Issue ID: 15574
           Summary: wrong order of linker arguments breaks with as-needed
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: code at dawg.eu

Refer to
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1195#issuecomment-172342018
for more details.
Basically dmd puts libraries like -L-levent in front of any object files or
static libraries, which always leads to link errors when used w/ --as-needed
b/c the libraries aren't preceded by anything that requires them.
Linking w/ --as-needed is the default on Ubuntu, so dmd is effectively unable
to use external libraries on Ubuntu.

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