Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:20:41 -0700
Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 08/18/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400
> > Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> If you just check your packages occassionally to make sure they
> >> build with gold it completely achieves the goal, and it will
> >> actually result in fewer bugs using the non-gold linker as well.  
> > 
> > 
> > That's what a tinderbox is for. The only QA problem I see here is
> > that QA doesn't automate that kind of checks anymore since Diego
> > left. Maybe QA should ask Toralf to run a ld.gold tinderbox and
> > avoid asking people to randomly test random packages ?
> >   
> I dunno, if testing packages that one maintains is as simple as
> reconfiguring a package, testing, and switching back then I don't
> think it's unreasonable to ask us to test our own packages. We're
> supposed to do that already, and for packages whose dependencies
> aren't 100% hashed out, it can help us figure out what the real deps
> are.


test against... all linkers, all compilers, all libcs, all kernels, all
userlannds, all useflags, ... ? :)


by all means, please do it, but there are things machines are better
at, like ensuring all packages have been tested against gold linker and
every failure has been reported