Bug#631687: excellent-bifurcation: FTBFS with ld --as-needed

[Ilya Barygin]

Package: excellent-bifurcation
Version: 0.0.20071015-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: ld-as-needed

The package fails to build when --as-needed linker option is enabled,
because of incorrect order of parameters passed to ld. Here's a log of
failed build in Ubuntu:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70831653/buildlog_ubuntu-oneiric-i386.excellent-bifurcation_0.0.20071015-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

See also
http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking#Only_link_with_needed_libraries

The attached patch was used in Ubuntu to fix the problem.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/excellent-bifurcation/0.0.20071015-3ubuntu1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric
  APT policy: (500, 'oneiric')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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