From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTeES-0000GC-5E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:04:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD3111C00B; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E12FE0ADB for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so2044610wwb.40 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:03:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=XXvcIPUw3iaMuHTFb6WnZTlbF/MkXI/hgfupSFU5MHA=; b=TGu9aE2B33kWjVT0F1b2kxY1tx5+FaGXsUOhtcgVj4rss+Y7N0Ezam0yDKyulGxjkp TvfKQLomoKUQBUB6B4p+9xrn7CGO9aLDch8FaxBXopjwo3rG/YTKIeCbjM6mQJANPpAA TgR9gtd6G+MCLJN0/DMivGz7SFuGEGXy+Mdbk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ZJYTTRBGJ9lONDnTeXL90gFkGwxjnp+pFGv5+EdME0KKb54WIeqPDaydHiAxmpvgKS kNYxeJXqKc9Pq/rqHyqDU3tr0C+tvzQiEm0FGGYJ0cDRGIMMW9v+CY/tsr+d/RMxf9ot ctu0WYijw4tWYeImrE3VjWPOfMieZPTf9HG/I= Received: by 10.216.167.77 with SMTP id h55mr9776432wel.53.1277831022643; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiny-one.home (host86-176-217-47.range86-176.btcentralplus.com [86.176.217.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l70sm4741414weq.24.2010.06.29.10.03.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:03:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:04:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201006291804.03080.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 38c22761-5826-4a0a-9c41-9d5fe1c5e394 X-Archives-Hash: cb48a129816aaff4c6e59146271440b4 On Monday 28 June 2010 02:09:44 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm sure at least half of you are thinking "Oh no, not this again...", > and I agree. However, I'm /also/ thinking "Why the heck haven't we > done this yet?" > > [...] /If/ you're=C2=B9 going to insist on doing this, could you please at least = do it in=20 a way that's easy for users to disable? (Profile LDFLAGS as the subject li= ne=20 says obviously qualifies, but there's also been talk of creating gcc-config= =20 profiles, modified specs etc.) That way people can choose according to the= ir=20 own preferences for correctness versus convenience etc. [1] Whoever does it, not specifically Nirbheek