Hi everybody, I passed this on gentoo-alt and seemed to be ok for everyone, as it doesn't change anything for the end users on Gentoo Linux and is the minimum change possible.
As you can find on Gentoo/ALT maintainers notes [1] under "Linkers issues", Gentoo/ALT is moving toward accepting non-GNU linkers (while not asking anyone to support them). The new handling is basically the same as it was before, just instead of hardcoding -Wl,-z,now as flags, it's asked to use $(bindnow-flags) function to get the flags to use. The function is provided by flag-o-matic, so it's already there if you're append-flags'ing. There are also instructions on how to patch sources that use autotools and a suggested way to patch sources that do not use them. The gentooalt-m4 package that is named in the guide is currently only present on Gentoo/ALT overlay. I'm going to do a few more tests tomorrow, and later I'll see to commit it on main portage. Using that instead of adding the m4 to every package makes possible to update just that one to add support for a new linker. I'm not going to open a big bug for this, as it's going to be quite tricky and it's mostly a side or "will be" problem, that is less subtle than others (like the --with-gnu-ld) as it causes the package to fail linking and it's simple to tackle when keywording or reviewing or testing. If anybody feels like fixing that in its own packages, however, it's welcome :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/maintnotes.xml#doc_chap3 -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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