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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item announcing as-needed (glep 42 stuff)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:54:59
Message-Id: 4C4EE53B.5090303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item announcing as-needed (glep 42 stuff) by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On 7/27/10 1:36 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
2 > Dne 27.7.2010 05:38, Ryan Hill napsal(a):
3 >> Yep. Can I suggest:
4 >
5 >> -Wl,--as-needed has been added to the default profile's LDFLAGS.
6 >
7 >> This option optimizes the linking process, only linking binaries to
8 >> libraries that are trully needed. This way, fewer libraries are loaded
9 >> at runtime and fewer packages need to be rebuilt after library updates.
10 >
11 >> To take advantage of the new default you can either rebuild world now or just
12 >> allow the system to migrate incrementally as it updates.
13 >
14 >> Please note that setting LDFLAGS="<your flags>" in your make.conf will
15 >> override the profile defaults. If you want to add additional LDFLAGS it is
16 >> recommended to use LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} <your flags>" instead to avoid this.
17 >
18 >> For more information on --as-needed, read [1].
19 >
20 >> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
21 >
22 >
23 > I like this. Consider this as the update :]
24 > With one simple replace s/trully/truly/ :P
25
26 I also like Ryan's version. I think it is clear and accurate.
27
28 Paweł

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