On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:47:44 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paludis is fine with as-needed. But hey, don't let reality get in > > the way of your pathetic attempts at turning everything into Paludis > > bashing. > > It happens to be the only package that I know of that couldn't be > fixed to work with --as-needed (fix for others being to actually > state linking with a library whose symbols are directly used). I have > not heard of anything else.
Except that Paludis is fine with --as-needed. > That doesn't mean Gentoo progress, in maintainability of a running > system through the ease of ABI breaks meaning magnitudes of less > recompilations, should be inhibited. as-needed isn't the right way to do this. > > And twenty years ago C++ had to work around linkers that only > > supported eight character symbol names. Reality moves forward, > > except in situations like these where people try to rice it > > backwards. > > Maybe you'd like to tell that to the authors of the platforms that > don't support this extreme corner case, but are amongst the platforms > that we do somewhat support in Gentoo? Not really. They'll fix it sooner or later. Probably sooner, once C++0x starts being widely used. > The story that matters here is, that a C++ corner case that does not > work on 0.01% of packages with --as-needed and breaks on non-ELF > platforms, should not cause good things for our users to be shot down. You could say the same thing for -ffast-math... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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