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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××.com>
To: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>, qa@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Add --hash-style=gnu to LDFLAGS
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:22:26
Message-Id: 1281226941.2511.3.camel@saladin.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Add --hash-style=gnu to LDFLAGS by Alec Warner
1 Il giorno sab, 07/08/2010 alle 17.15 -0700, Alec Warner ha scritto:
2 >
3 > Why not just set some LDFLAGS that totally won't work (-Wl, taters)
4 > and then assume anything that actually compiles with those flags set
5 > does not respect LDFLAGS. Set that up on a tinderbox instead of
6 > making users do it.
7
8 Because such negative tests don't get far away: a single package failing
9 will drop its whole deptree from merging. And we have much more
10 important things to look for with a tinderbox than this, given the
11 amount of (failure) builds you'd be expected to see with this approach.
12
13 --
14 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
15 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/