From 5b6a3422e21dcea7f100823bb03e583fced80424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "evan@chromium.org"
 <evan@chromium.org@4ff67af0-8c30-449e-8e8b-ad334ec8d88c>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:55:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] linux: pass --as-needed to linker

Gentoo has some nice docs on it here:
  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
on my Maverick box I couldn't see a difference in the ldd output,
but I suppose it can't hurt on older systems.

BUG=11595

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/3050043

git-svn-id: http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/build@55302 4ff67af0-8c30-449e-8e8b-ad334ec8d88c
---
 common.gypi | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 13dea600d..540774219 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -951,6 +951,7 @@
               # Specifically tell the linker to perform optimizations.
               # See http://lwn.net/Articles/192624/ .
               '-Wl,-O1',
+              '-Wl,--as-needed',
             ],
             'conditions' : [
               ['no_gc_sections==0', {