scons: Disable unsupported -Wl,--as-needed in MacOS

Change-Id: Id6f8199b818217c4fcf4b80efdb7cc9e1d14e32b
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28173
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 215c0b6..3345148 100755
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -359,7 +359,10 @@
         main.Append(CCFLAGS=['-I/usr/local/include'])
         main.Append(CXXFLAGS=['-I/usr/local/include'])
 
-    main.Append(LINKFLAGS='-Wl,--as-needed')
+    # On Mac OS X/Darwin the default linker doesn't support the
+    # option --as-needed
+    if sys.platform != "darwin":
+        main.Append(LINKFLAGS='-Wl,--as-needed')
     main['FILTER_PSHLINKFLAGS'] = lambda x: str(x).replace(' -shared', '')
     main['PSHLINKFLAGS'] = main.subst('${FILTER_PSHLINKFLAGS(SHLINKFLAGS)}')
     if GetOption('gold_linker'):