From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 585FE13832E for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 359A9E0A69; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37D8BE0912 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from portable (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e34:eeaa:6bd0:6d89:9163:2e7b:9035]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: aballier) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5259D33BF44 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:26:21 +0200 From: Alexis Ballier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues! Message-ID: <20160818122621.09b4c246@portable> In-Reply-To: <943d47b7-f01a-480a-3bb6-c9ccf14f6cf9@gentoo.org> References: <20160817223742.6ccff657.mgorny@gentoo.org> <943d47b7-f01a-480a-3bb6-c9ccf14f6cf9@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2962baa3-6aee-40ae-9a85-bee47ca61c1d X-Archives-Hash: 6ecaa49fb5ba01c47321814a308b551c On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:39:37 -0700 Daniel Campbell wrote: > Is it as simple as switching the linker and re-merging packages that > one maintains? Is gold supposed to be a big deal? Does it do the job > of linking better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's > explaining what gold does better than standard ld. I think gold is faster and doesnt eat 8+gb of ram when linking chromium with debug symbols :) > That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND > updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me. Nah, it's adding proper -lfoo when foo is used; more like asneeded fixes.