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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:21:34
Message-Id: 20160818152116.16060257@portable
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues! by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > If you just check your packages occassionally to make sure they build
5 > with gold it completely achieves the goal, and it will actually result
6 > in fewer bugs using the non-gold linker as well.
7
8
9 That's what a tinderbox is for. The only QA problem I see here is that
10 QA doesn't automate that kind of checks anymore since Diego left. Maybe
11 QA should ask Toralf to run a ld.gold tinderbox and avoid asking people
12 to randomly test random packages ?

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