[gentoo-dev] Re: Add --hash-style=gnu to LDFLAGS

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday, August 07, 2010 20:11:42 Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:32:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:32:31 Markos Chandras wrote:
> > > It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track down
> > > packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding -Wl,--hash-style=gnu is a
> > > good way to do that. I would like to see this linker flag enabled by
> > > default on LDFLAGS (or at least for the dev/ profiles for now). Do you
> > > agree?
> > 
> > it isnt a valid flag for everyone.  it requires a new enough binutils
> > (not too big of a deal), a new enough glibc (also not too big of a
> > deal), and you cant be a mips target (glibc support is broken).  support
> > does exist in uClibc, but only in recent versions (this is an issue),
> > and hasnt been widely tested for many targets.
> 
> We could at least enable that on x86/amd64 dev profiles (since only devs
> are supposed to use them and they are the most used arches among us) just
> to get some more feedback and fix the packages before they reach the end
> users. This will reduce the bug # and make sure that --as-needed is
> respected in a broader range of packages

obviously you only mean linux x86/amd64 dev profiles.  i dont have a strong 
opinion on that small subset in either direction.
-mike

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