On Saturday, August 07, 2010 20:11:42 Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:32:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:32:31 Markos Chandras wrote: > > > It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track down > > > packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding -Wl,--hash-style=gnu is a > > > good way to do that. I would like to see this linker flag enabled by > > > default on LDFLAGS (or at least for the dev/ profiles for now). Do you > > > agree? > > > > it isnt a valid flag for everyone. it requires a new enough binutils > > (not too big of a deal), a new enough glibc (also not too big of a > > deal), and you cant be a mips target (glibc support is broken). support > > does exist in uClibc, but only in recent versions (this is an issue), > > and hasnt been widely tested for many targets. > > We could at least enable that on x86/amd64 dev profiles (since only devs > are supposed to use them and they are the most used arches among us) just > to get some more feedback and fix the packages before they reach the end > users. This will reduce the bug # and make sure that --as-needed is > respected in a broader range of packages
obviously you only mean linux x86/amd64 dev profiles. i dont have a strong opinion on that small subset in either direction. -mike
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