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On 08/17/2016 01:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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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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Is it as simple as switching the linker and re-merging packages that one |
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maintains? Is gold supposed to be a big deal? Does it do the job of |
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linking better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's explaining |
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what gold does better than standard ld. |
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That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND |
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updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me. |
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Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
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