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?
I missed the patch you originally sent. So it already includes a
configure check. Seems to be OK, I'll have a closer look later.
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