On Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:27 +0530 "Nirbheek Chauhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fact: the underlying issue is a libtool bug. > > Fact: It can't be fixed easily and/or in a reasonable time-frame. Else > someone would've done it -- heck you could've fixed it.
Untrue. The amount of effort that's been wasted messing around with as-needed could easily have been directed to fixing the root cause instead. Debian have already done most of the work. > > Fact: as-needed does not fix this bug. It attempts to work around > > it. > > Fact: It works. Unlike your vapour-proposal to "fix libtool". But it doesn't work. And fixing libtool isn't vapour. Read the Debian patch. > > Fact: as-needed breaks standard-compliant code. > > Fact: Breakages are rare, code which causes it is discouraged anyway, > and is fixable in any case. We're not a standards organisation. You seriously think Gentoo has the manpower to go around making unnecessary changes to upstream code? And there's nothing in the C++ standard discouraging static initialisation. > > Fact: fixing the libtool bug would give all the benefits purportedly > > given by using as-needed, without the drawbacks. > > Fact: It hasn't been done forever, and won't be done anytime soon. And the Debian patch is...? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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