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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item announcing as-needed (glep 42 stuff)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:31:27
Message-Id: 4C4F1817.4020903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item announcing as-needed (glep 42 stuff) by Jeroen Roovers
1 On 07/27/2010 07:51 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
2 > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:41:36 -0700
3 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 7/27/10 7:39 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
6 >>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:29:06 +0200
7 >>> Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>> Is it time yet? I still find a lot of packages that do not even
10 >>> respect LDFLAGS yet - when all these get fixed to respect LDFLAGS,
11 >>> we will probably find yet more packages that are problematic with
12 >>> --as-needed.
13 >>
14 >> I think that the arch teams doing the stabilizations are a good safety
15 >> net against that. And having --as-needed by default makes those issues
16 >> easier to detect.
17 >
18 > Not entirely true, because as I tried to explain, a package needs to
19 > first respect our LDFLAGS to respect our --as-needed in the second
20 > place. Since the QA trigger in portage is based on --hash-style=gnu,
21 > you'd have to make that the default as well to find a package
22 > ignoring LDFLAGS...
23 >
24
25 But adding --as-needed by default does not (now) break packages not
26 respecting LDFLAGS.
27
28 Regards,

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