Hi, It looks like somewhere between gcc-5.3.0 and gcc-6.2.1 --as-needed became the default:
https://gist.github.com/x-yuri/1b4c19891be50b2b8801689de1487009 In other words it looks like on Alpine Linux 3.4 -lintl always adds libintl, on >= 3.5 only if some of its symbols are really needed. Can you possibly give a link to the commit or a changelog entry? Regards, Yuri
