Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:04:24
Message-Id: 201006291804.03080.levertond@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On Monday 28 June 2010 02:09:44 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
2 > Hello everyone,
3 >
4 > I'm sure at least half of you are thinking "Oh no, not this again...",
5 > and I agree. However, I'm /also/ thinking "Why the heck haven't we
6 > done this yet?"
7 >
8 > [...]
9
10 /If/ you're¹ going to insist on doing this, could you please at least do it in
11 a way that's easy for users to disable? (Profile LDFLAGS as the subject line
12 says obviously qualifies, but there's also been talk of creating gcc-config
13 profiles, modified specs etc.) That way people can choose according to their
14 own preferences for correctness versus convenience etc.
15
16 [1] Whoever does it, not specifically Nirbheek