On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:21:23PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:29:57AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:28:04AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:20:56PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > >> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:44:12PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > >> > > link.sh tries to avoid overlinking in a hackish way. > > > >> > > At least GNU ld supports --as-needed which provides the same > > > >> > > functionality > > > >> > > at linker level. Let's use it. > > > >> > > > > >> > Any comments? > > > >> > > > >> Simply as a data point, I've been building Debian's Vim packages with > > > >> -Wl,--as-needed for ~2.5 years now so I'd be interested in having this > > > >> functionality done automatically when the proper tools are present. > > > > > > > > Seems, nobody cares. Sad. > > > > > > Just be patient. :) Bram appears to have been busy since the 7.3 > > > release. When he gets back to Vim stuff, you'll likely get a response > > > then. > > > > Bram, any feedback? > > I don't know this link option, where it's supported or how well it > works.
It works in both binutils linkers (bfd and gold). Some distributions use it by default for all packages. ALT Linux uses it since 2006. > If we want to use it we would need a configure check and somehow > have the result used for link.sh. I haven't seen a patch for that. My patch checks if linker supports the option. Or do you want something else? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
