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Hello, fellow developers. |
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TL;DR: switch to the darn gold linker, and start fixing your darn |
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packages! |
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After many years, the underlinking tracker [1] is still full of bugs. |
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This is a huge QA problem, and most of the developers don't test for |
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it. |
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Long story short, the thing usually looks like this: a developer |
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switches to the gold linker, starts hitting build failures |
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and reporting bugs. Most of the time, nobody gives a damn about those |
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bugs and the developer eventually gives up, wants to be able to upgrade |
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his system again and switches back to bfd. |
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So I'm asking shortly: please start caring. Switch to gold: |
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$ sudo binutils-config --linker ld.gold |
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Test your packages. Report bugs upstream. Get them fixed. |
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If someone already tested it and reported the bug, proxy it upstream. |
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Don't expect everyone else to do the dirty work on your packages. |
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This is not some problem with a fancy non-standard configuration. |
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ld.gold is just the messenger, and the message is: you are not linking |
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to the libraries you are using. This is serious, and your package only |
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works by accident. Of course, you don't have to pass my exact words |
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upstream. |
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That said, I'd really like for Gentoo to be able to finally switch to |
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ld.gold by default. However, that can't happen if every common system is |
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going to have 1-3 packages failing to build. |
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Thanks in advance. |
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[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=underlinking |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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