Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Roland McGrath
This change is one I can agree with on technical grounds, though it will cause a great deal of pain in the short term. Have we got any estimates on exactly how much breakage will result before the change gets made? Fedora already made the change a full release cycles ago, and Fedora package

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Roland McGrath
On 15.11.2010 07:16, Roland McGrath wrote: yes, OpenSuse is using --as-needed, but not --no-add-needed. That is a pretty nutty choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ia64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Roland McGrath
I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I called anything in it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ia64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject