On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > >> It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track > >> down > >> packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding -Wl,--hash-style=gnu is a > >> good way > >> to do that. I would like to see this linker flag enabled by default on > >> LDFLAGS > >> (or at least for the dev/ profiles for now). Do you agree? > > > > I would really really *really* appreciated if our beloved arch testers ( at > > least for linux amd64/x86 > > because they are the first who stabilize a package ) make this default > > on their build boxes. > > sounds like someone needs to update/extend the arch testing > documentation. random e-mails posted to random dev lists are quickly > forgotten. new arch testers however should be reading the arch tester > documnt. > I will update the guide for amd64 HT and I will strongly advice the rest of the arches to do that as well. Using my QA powerzzz I will be quite strict from now on with arches making such stabilizations. > > It is annoying to mark a package stable when it has *clear* QA problems. > > please dont blow this out of proportion. two points: > - stabilizing newer versions of a package when there is no QA > regression is fine. Fair enough, still those QA need fixing. The fact that these QA probs are not regressions doesn't mean it is ok to ignore them > - ignoring LDFLAGS, while incorrect, is rarely going to lead to > broken packages being emerged on end users' systems. ignoring > CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS however is much more likely to result in problems for > end users when working with multilib or cross builds. > -mike Of course. Respecting any *FLAGS is vital and definitely ony of the many reasons we use Gentoo.
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