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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc builds and --as-needed
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:07:37
Message-Id: 200510112007.14788.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc builds and --as-needed by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:56 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > Simon Strandman wrote:
3 > | I'm curious why --as-needed is disabled for glibc builds. It was first
4 > | added over a year ago in one of the early 2.3.4 builds so is it still
5 > | nessecary?
6 >
7 > I think it had something to do with breaking binutils 2.15.90 or
8 > thereabouts.
9
10 yes, a lot of people had older binutils/gcc at the time so we force disabled
11 it in both glibc/gcc so people would stop bitching
12
13 then we forgot about it
14 -mike
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