Disable --as-needed for libpthread to work around linker bug.

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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                 # issues with libc++ (crbug.com/456380).
                 'ldflags': [
                   # Warn in case of text relocations.
                   '-Wl,--warn-shared-textrel',
                 ],
               }],
               ['OS=="android"', {
                 'variables': {
                   'release_optimize%': 's',
                 },
+              }, {
+                'ldflags': [
+                  # TODO(pcc): Fix linker bug which requires us to link pthread
+                  # unconditionally here (crbug.com/623236).
+                  '-Wl,--no-as-needed',
+                  '-lpthread',
+                  '-Wl,--as-needed',
+                ],
               }],
               ['profiling==1', {
                 'cflags': [
                   '-fno-omit-frame-pointer',
                   '-g',
                 ],
                 'conditions' : [
                   ['profiling_full_stack_frames==1', {
                     'cflags': [
                       '-fno-inline',
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }