Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 15.11.2010 07:16, Roland McGrath wrote: mattst88 airlied_, does Fedora use --as-needed by default? Fedora 14 too? airlied_ mattst88: yes The naming of the options makes people easily confused. --no-add-needed is the only option Fedora's gcc passes. yes, OpenSuse is using --as-needed,

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 14.11.2010 16:06, Roger Leigh wrote: While I understand the rationale for --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for preventing encapsulation violations via indirect linking, I don't agree with the use of --as-needed *at all*. If a library has been explicitly linked in, it shouldn't be removed. This

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-mips-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs (turning on --as-needed and --no-copy-dt-needed-entries. The rationale is summarized in

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.11.2010 01:24, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:02:57PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: On 14.11.2010 16:06, Roger Leigh wrote: While I understand the rationale for --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for preventing encapsulation violations via indirect linking, I don't agree with the

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? The answer is mainly unwanted libraries being linked in as a result of using pkg-config (and various

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? The answer is mainly