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Bug 750981 - linking error on Mac OS X Yosemite
linking error on Mac OS X Yosemite
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: easytag
Classification: Other
Component: general
master
Other Mac OS
: Normal normal
: 2.2
Assigned To: EasyTAG maintainer(s)
EasyTAG maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-06-15 09:17 UTC by Tom Schoonjans
Modified: 2015-09-07 09:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tom Schoonjans 2015-06-15 09:17:57 UTC 
While updating the easytag Formula on Homebrew to 2.3.7 I noticed the following linker error:

  CXXLD    easytag
ld: unknown option: --no-as-needed
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I managed to circumvent it for now by removing the test for this linker flag in the configure script, but I guess it means that the m4 test is producing a false positive for this flag which should be addressed in a more robust manner.

I am running Mac OS X Yosemity with clang --version:

Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
Thread model: posix
Comment 1 David King 2015-06-15 09:33:34 UTC 
The macro which adds the --no-as-needed flag is part of AX_COMPILER_FLAGS from autoconf-archive. Can you try making sure that you are using the latest M4 macros from autoconf-archive (copying them into the m4/ subdirectory in the easytag repository if necessary) and test to see whether that fixes the problem? You can fetch autconf-archive at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/autoconf-archive/ (or https://github.com/peti/autoconf-archive/).
Comment 2 Tom Schoonjans 2015-06-16 17:22:42 UTC 
I tried it with the newest version of the autoconf-archive macros but got the same result :-(
Comment 3 David King 2015-09-02 10:35:54 UTC 
I just noticed that the autconf-archive macro has been updated:

https://github.com/peti/autoconf-archive/commit/dece1b219362fecbae146d243548afd0e927f127

The commit message suggests that this may fix exactly the problem that you are seeing with the unknown linker option. Can you test the updated AX_COMPILER_FLAGS_LDFLAGS macro?
Comment 4 Tom Schoonjans 2015-09-07 08:17:15 UTC 
Sorry for the delay: I was on holiday last week.

Just tested it and it works nicely with the new version, though I had to copy several more autoconf archive macros into m4 to get the new AX_COMPILER_FLAGS_LDFLAGS version working.
Comment 5 David King 2015-09-07 09:22:09 UTC 
Thanks for the testing! I just updated the autoconf-archive macros in EasyTAG git master to the latest, which includes the fix, in commit 84069f14c8c2006555e397ae5acdc7fc40917f7b. A future 2.4.1 release should have the fix.