Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 03-10-2009 22:35:58 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:13:59 +0300 >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Since new binutils will support LD_AS_NEEDED="1" to force ld behave >>>> asneeded we could use this for the developer -target in profiles? >>>> >>>> Speak up if you think it's a terrible idea. >>> Well, it does break correct code, so it's about on par with forcing >>> -ffast-math or -fno-exceptions or -fvisibility-inlines-hidden on >>> globally... >>> >> Be reasonable. We can add -Wl,--no-as-needed for those packages with >> valid code. And I'm certainly not suggesting adding it to base/, _only_ >> for the developer target. > > Please recall that this is a GNU binutils flag. I prefer the > environment flag over the command-line option, because it doesn't break > other linkers, but if it implies many ebuilds getting -Wl,--no-as-needed > append-ldflagged, then I'm not getting happy as that breaks my builds. > >
The amount of pkgs in tree with valid code that fails with asneeded is close to zero. We can use this, if use userland_GNU; then append-ldflags -Wl,--no-as-needed fi logic so it won't cause you troubles. Or the obvious shorter && version of it.
