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On Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:32:31 Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track down |
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> packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding -Wl,--hash-style=gnu is a good |
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> way to do that. I would like to see this linker flag enabled by default on |
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> LDFLAGS (or at least for the dev/ profiles for now). Do you agree? |
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it isnt a valid flag for everyone. it requires a new enough binutils (not too |
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big of a deal), a new enough glibc (also not too big of a deal), and you cant |
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be a mips target (glibc support is broken). support does exist in uClibc, but |
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only in recent versions (this is an issue), and hasnt been widely tested for |
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many targets. |
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it also can cause binary compatibility issues for people who wish to compile a |
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package on Gentoo but deploy elsewhere. not sure how much of a hassle this is |
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for people. |
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considering the only real benefit is that it automates a QA check, i dont |
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think it's worth the hassle. newer Gentoo binutils already enables .gnu.hash |
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support by default, so people get the speed increase transparently. |
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> I would also like to know the procedures I should follow to make this |
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> default on every profile as well. Do I need a council approval for that? |
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not really |
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-mike |
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