On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, 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? > > I would really really *really* appreciated if our beloved arch testers ( at > least for linux amd64/x86 > because they are the first who stabilize a package ) make this default > on their build boxes.
sounds like someone needs to update/extend the arch testing documentation. random e-mails posted to random dev lists are quickly forgotten. new arch testers however should be reading the arch tester documnt. > It is annoying to mark a package stable when it has *clear* QA problems. please dont blow this out of proportion. two points: - stabilizing newer versions of a package when there is no QA regression is fine. - ignoring LDFLAGS, while incorrect, is rarely going to lead to broken packages being emerged on end users' systems. ignoring CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS however is much more likely to result in problems for end users when working with multilib or cross builds. -mike
