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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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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
> 
> considering the only real benefit is that it automates a QA check, i dont 
> think it's worth the hassle.  newer Gentoo binutils already enables .gnu.hash 
> support by default, so people get the speed increase transparently.
Agreed


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