Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" to developer profile's make.defaults

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 21 March 2010 02:15:17 Doktor Notor wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:52:36 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > remind me again why this matters ?  binutils has been defaulting to
> > hash- style=both for quite a while now.
>
> Well, I already tried in my P.S. but let me try again: I'm not
> suggesting that devs should have more optimized binaries
> - it matters b/c of this in misc-functions.sh:
>
> if [[ "${LDFLAGS}" == *--hash-style=gnu* ]] && [[ "${PN}" != *-bin ]] ;
> then;
> <do some magic here to detect ignored LDFLAGS>
> fi
>
> Good candidate to test is net-fs/mount-cifs (tiny, fast)
>
> You *only* get the following QA notice w/ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
> set:

forcing gnu-only hashes breaks some systems, and is a relatively "newish" 
flag, so it isnt a candidate for global enabling.
-mike