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On 27.4.2021 21.56, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 25. April 2021, 21:01:03 CEST schrieb William Hubbs: |
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>> All, |
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>> two weeks from today (2021-05-09) the Gentoo Council will meet |
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>> at 19:00 utc in the #gentoo-council channel on freenode. |
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>> Please respond to this message with any items you would like us to |
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>> discuss or vote on. The agenda will be sent to this list a week from now |
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>> (2021-05-02). |
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> I'd like to kick off a discussion whether LTO should be considered "supported". With that I essentially mean that bugs involving LTO should be considered valid, and fixes (be it only stripping -flto from flags, or similar solutions) should be committed to the tree. |
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I don't use lto, but been wondering when would be a good time to provide |
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a stage3-lto installation media. Reasoning is similar to yours. |
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-- juippis |
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> I would like to clarify this before possibly suggesting an initiative to make the Gentoo repository LTO-safe (similar to what we did years ago with --as-needed). |
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> Background is, just about every binary distribution out there builds with LTO by default now. It's not so great if we then keep telling people "LTO is dangerous". |
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> Cheers, |
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> Andreas |
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> (Yes I'm aware of the LTO overlay. It may be a great source.) |
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