Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE=-native-symlinks for gcc-config and binutils-config

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 22:36 +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> 'tc-directly' tracker https://bugs.gentoo.org/243502 tracks
> packages that don't respect users' CC/AR/LD flags.
>
> I added new USE=-native-symlinks mode for gcc-config and
> binutils-config to ease detection of such packages.
>
> Native symlinks are still installed by default. Nothing should
> break for users who use default USE flags.
>
> USE=-native-symlinks removes a bunch of links that most packages
> use by default until are overridden explicitly. Incomplete list is:
> - /lib/cpp
> - /usr/bin/{gcc,cc,g++,c++,...}
> - /usr/bin/{as,ld,ranlib,dwp,...}
>
> The rule of thumb is: if a tool does not have ${CTARGET}- prefix
> it will probably disappear with USE=-native-symlinks.

Does this list include 'ar' or not?  Asking because there's been
a number of false positives reported for 'ar' being used as an archiver
(e.g. to work on .deb packages).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny