From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:58:04 +0300 From: Alexey Tourbin To: ALT Linux Team development discussions Message-ID: <20100322135804.GD12770@altlinux.org> Mail-Followup-To: ALT Linux Team development discussions References: <20100321101137.GE12359@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> <921f6bb41003210319v398e11ceq830f342a05e77c8b@mail.gmail.com> <20100321131440.GA1931@wo.int.altlinux.org> <20100321145113.GD30094@altlinux.org> <20100321153442.GA21854@wo.int.altlinux.org> <20100321191834.GE30094@altlinux.org> <20100322081149.GA12770@altlinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [devel] Q: --no-copy-dt-needed-entries X-BeenThere: devel@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Id: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:58:05 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:00:46PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > >> gold(1) behaves that way by default. AFAIK, Fedora goes to switch to i= t later. > >> So it's one of step of switching. > > > > So a good reason to change the default is because of Fedora. =A0Because > > they are going to change it, too! =A0Just not yet. =A0Maybe next week. >=20 > Alexey, what will we do when Fedora and other major distributions > switch to gold(1)? Do they? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GoldLinking - "may make it default linker in the future", with no schedule. > We have three options: >=20 > 1. Switch to gold too and fix all regressions in repository including > indirect linking issues. >=20 > 2. Switch to gold, but add functionality for --copy-dt-needed-entries > which, probably, will never be upstreamed. Quite an option. http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D10238 > 3. Do not switch to gold and use semi-supported gnu-ld. >=20 > > But as far as I know, Fedora did never enable --as-needed by default. > > This makes a difference. By the way, I'm not sure if gold(1) can do the --as-needed thing. Probably we need to implement it, too. --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkund2wACgkQfBKgtDjnu0barACdG27u6yzN0eBH00lmI5iIPBpA TIoAn0yJsd+JpBvuJ7k4uJpu40oePInq =F+Mv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi--