Expand g_type_init release notes

This is in the light of
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691077

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.in b/README.in
index 1122c1674..10ae6063c 100644
--- a/README.in
+++ b/README.in
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ Notes about GLib 2.36
   loading GLib as a dynamic module, you should be careful to avoid
   unloading it, then subsequently loading it again.  This never
   really worked before, but it is now explicitly undefined behavior.
+  Note that if g_type_init() was the only explicit use of a GObject
+  API and you are using linker flags such as --no-add-needed, then
+  you may have to artificially use some GObject call to keep the
+  linker from optimizing away -lgobject. We recommend to use
+  g_type_ensure (G_TYPE_OBJECT) for this purpose.
 
 * This release contains an incompatible change to the g_get_home_dir()
   function.  Previously, this function would effectively ignore the HOME