From: vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de   
      
   Arthur Hagen  wrote:   
   >   
   > The error is because with the GNU linker, cairo /requires/ libGL.so.1 to   
   > be loaded at run time, even though the function you call doesn't use it.   
      
   You are right.  I would not have expected this from the description   
   of --as-needed.  This makes --as-needed a rather poor option (although   
   it is still better than without --as-needed).   
      
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