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

2016-08-19 Thread james
On 08/19/2016 03:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:21:16 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: If you just check

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

2016-08-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:58:44 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:21:16 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > If you just check your packages

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

2016-08-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:21:16 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 >> Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> > If you just check your packages occassionally to

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

2016-08-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:21:16 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > If you just check your packages occassionally to make sure they build > > with gold it completely achieves the goal, and it will

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

2016-08-18 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, N, 18.08.2016 kell 23:56, kirjutas Alexis Ballier: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:20:41 -0700 > Daniel Campbell wrote: > > > On 08/18/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > >   

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

2016-08-18 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:20:41 -0700 Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 08/18/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > >> If you just check your packages occassionally to make sure they > >> build with

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

2016-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/18/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > Rich Freeman 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

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

2016-08-18 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 Rich Freeman 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

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

2016-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > > And as long as I keep reading such statements I won't use ld.gold > anywhere on my (dev-)systems. A linker IMHO is a far too crucial > toolchain component to blindly play around with. > There really isn't any need

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

2016-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:39 AM, 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

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

2016-08-18 Thread Lars Wendler
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:43:42 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:37:42 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: >[...] >> That said, I'd really like for Gentoo to be able to finally switch to >> ld.gold by default. > >It still has problems with kernel or kernel modules here and there.

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

2016-08-18 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:37:42 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: [...] > That said, I'd really like for Gentoo to be able to finally switch to > ld.gold by default. It still has problems with kernel or kernel modules here and there. Also from my experience gold demands more memory on linking large

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

2016-08-18 Thread Alexis Ballier
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

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

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2016 01:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, fellow developers. > > TL;DR: switch to the darn gold linker, and start fixing your darn > packages! > > After many years, the underlinking tracker [1] is still full of bugs. > This is a huge QA problem, and most of the developers don't test

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

2016-08-17 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Michał Górny wrote: > $ sudo binutils-config --linker ld.gold "sudo", really? Are we Ubuntu now? :) $ sudo binutils-config --linker ld.gold bash: sudo: command not found Ulrich pgpUpWKGw1EbA.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2016-08-17 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, fellow developers. TL;DR: switch to the darn gold linker, and start fixing your darn packages! After many years, the underlinking tracker [1] is still full of bugs. This is a huge QA problem, and most of the developers don't test for it. Long story short, the thing usually looks like