[asherkin]

This is definitely the well-known GCC problem of it deciding not to link the libs, because it hasn't yet encountered any code that requires them, because our linker flags are in the "wrong" order. Reproducing this broken behaviour is dependent on the distro's linker scripts (--as-needed / --no-as-needed), so it working on one system is not indicative of there not being an issue (there is an issue).