On 02/06/2015 10:18 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 06/02/15 08:00, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> Android native GCC can't support LTO because of a lack of support for
>>>> dlopen() in the C library.  How should we patch the configury to disable
>>>> LTO by default?
>>>
>>> Doesn't setting unsupported_languages in toplevel configure.ac
>>> work for you?
>>
>> I'm sorry, I don't understand this comment.
> 
> Not sure what's not understood.  IIUC you want to disable LTO
> when building gcc natively on Android?  As LTO is considered a
> "language",

???

LTO is considered a "language"?  Who knew?

> disabling it by means of the support for targets or
> hosts to disable languages (by setting the shell variable
> unsupported_languages) seemed to make sense...though looking
> closer, I see the language configury is slightly fudged and
> needs some code moving to fix that, as e.g. lto-plugin
> conditionals and special lto handling have snuck in before the
> unsupported_languages processing.  Bah.  Never mind.

:-)

Anyway, it turns out that only the LTO plugin should be disabled, and
it turned out that was due to a bug in the weird shim library being used
to do native Android builds.  So I guess we're OK.

Andrew.

Reply via email to