Re: Linker trouble

2010-03-26 Thread Charley Wang
Hi Lubomir, Not 100% clear on this, so anyone who has more experience please feel free to correct me. In general, as-needed means that items specified on the command line may not be linked if they are not needed for any objects preceding them in the command line. I believe this is what is happe

LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update

2010-02-09 Thread Charley Wang
Hi everyone, This is an update to let maintainers know that the changes to LD outlined here : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking have been pushed to Fedora rawhide. The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to get failing packages to build can be

Re: LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update

2010-02-09 Thread Charley Wang
- "Adam Jackson" wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 17:37 -0500, Roland Grunberg wrote: > > This is just an update to let maintainers know that the changes to > > LD outlined here : > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking > > > > will be in fedora rawhide pre

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-13 Thread Charley Wang
- "Jussi Lehtola" wrote: > > So is --as-needed within the current default flags? As far as I know, no. The default will still be --no-as-needed. If anyone reading this is interested/confused, I think the difference is: The --as-needed flag will link libraries if A) they define symbols re

Re: Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-11 Thread Charley Wang
- "Ville Skyttä" wrote: > On Monday 11 January 2010, Charley Wang wrote: > > > We also need (and would appreciate help with) the > > linking of failed build logs to their package owners. > > If you want just an e-mail address per package, use - > ow...

Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

2010-01-11 Thread Charley Wang
Hi Fedora Developers, This is a quick announcement of the proposed change to DSO linking (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking). The change will force explicit declaration of links rather than implicitly detecting links. More detailed info is here: https://fedorapro