Fix linking with '--as-needed' (sensitive to linking order) #1654
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While working on a Gentoo ebuild, where I make sure that the environment CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are used - as is policy - I encountered a linking failure when having "--as-needed" in LDFLAGS. Turns out it was due to the linking order ("-ldl" appearing before "-lponyrt").
This patch changes the order of the "whole archive" and the regular libraries, thus fixing the problem.