[Bug 796] New: Linking of the plugin does not respect LDFLAGS

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=796

           Summary: Linking of the plugin does not respect LDFLAGS
           Product: IcedTea-Web
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: all
               URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356645
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: Plugin
        AssignedTo: dbhole at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: caster at gentoo.org
                CC: unassigned at icedtea.classpath.org


As we discussed on IRC, the plugin linking does not respect LDFLAGS and the fix
is trivial. I can't say that it breaks anything, but:
1) It's a good practice
2) In Gentoo we generally require this, being a source-based meta-distribution
3) Practically, the default LDFLAGS in gentoo contain --as-needed which
significantly reduces number of linked-but-in-fact-not-needed libraries that
trigger rebuilds when such libraries change SONAME (such as libpng which gets
indeed linked to the plugin without --as-needed, although it's not a
dependency).

Thanks for considering this.


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