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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:35
Message-Id: 200807261854.20286.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected by Ciaran McCreesh
1 2008-07-26 02:45:57 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
2 > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:15:03 +0000 (UTC)
3 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 > > In particular, --as-needed makes a HUGE very practical difference.
5 > > It may or may not be the wrong answer to the problem in theory, but
6 > > lacking anything even close to as workable right now, that alone is
7 > > IMO reason enough to work to get LDFLAGS honored. I appreciate the
8 > > difference it made here every time I run revdep-rebuild!
9 >
10 > Ignoring CFLAGS on some archs results in code that is either an order
11 > of magnitude slower or just plain won't run. Ignoring LDFLAGS means on
12 > those rare occasions when libraries aren't slotted properly you have to
13 > rebuild a few more things.
14 >
15 > Rather a large difference in impact there...
16
17 Respecting LDFLAGS provides also some some degree of optimization.
18 Potential benefits of LDFLAGS are sufficient to fix packages which ignore
19 LDFLAGS. The difference in impact is irrelevant, because even bugs without
20 any impact can be filed and should be fixed.
21
22 --
23 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>