I'm reporting this bug because the package in summary fails to build when forcing --as-needed on through spec files (check out http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/11/14/problems-and-mitigation-strategies-for-as-needed for details). Please note that this bug _might_ apply to -Wl,--as-needed in LDFLAGS as well; in both cases it should be fixed. Also, if this is due to the package in question not respecting user-defined LDFLAGS, you should get to fix that too. Check the attached build log. Thanks, Diego
Created attachment 196676 [details] Build log
I've tested 4.3.2. Same failure, also with LDFLAGS="--Wl,--as-needed". Also, the test suite needs X11 display where it starts programs, see bug 264925.
Tests have been RESTRICTed in 4.3.{1,2} until upstream fixes them