On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:22:32PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 11/21/2017 04:12 PM, David Tardon wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 01:54:13PM +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > > On 21 November 2017 at 10:43, Igor Gnatenko > > > <ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 10:26 +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > > > > So is it any final decision about start use by default --as-needed in > > > > > linker options? > > > > > > > > Can you link Change Proposal you (or someone else) submitted? I have > > > > not heard > > > > anything about that. > > > > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/pull-request/3 > > > > > > [..] > > > > > In my opinion number of affected packages will be very low (few). > > > > > > > > Counting numbers of affected packages by guessing is very bad idea. > > > > > > Call it educated guess if you want. > > > > You know, there is a way to get more reliable data: do scratch builds of > > all Fedora packages and analyze the results. Then we'd know _exactly_ > > how many packages would need to be patched. > > ...depending on how thoroughly the analysis is done, as the breakage caused > by an erroneous --as-needed might, at least in principle, only happen at > runtime, rather than at build time.
Pretty much all software in Fedora is already shipped in other distros which have taken this linking approach for a long time. So it is pretty reasonable to expect these kind of bugs have been identified & fixed by maintainers in other distros already. There may be edge cases remaining which no user has yet managed to tickle, but that's true of many aspects of Fedora. eg when we introduced the hardened build flags, there were places where we wouldn't know about breakage until much later. Requiring perfection before making this kind of change effectively means never doing the change. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
