Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 21:29:07 -0500, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : > >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to so

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:14:09 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > >>For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs > >>(turning on --as-needed and --no-copy-dt-needed-e

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >>> For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs >>> (turning on --as-needed and --no-copy-dt-needed-e

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Roland McGrath
> This change is one I can agree with on technical grounds, though it > will cause a great deal of pain in the short term. Have we got any > estimates on exactly how much breakage will result before the change > gets made? Fedora already made the change a full release cycles ago, and Fedora packa

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2010-11-16 Thread Marius Nünnerich
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Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Kurt Roeckx [101114 14:08]: > People have been claiming that constructors or init section are a > possible problem. I have yet to see an example where it breaks. The following example is a bit constructed, but shows a silent change of run-time behaviour if --as-needed is passed: $ cat > ertes

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:49:08AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 21:29:07 -0500, Matt Turner wrote: > > >> I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or > > >> unnecessary. > > >> Check out http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml > > >> --as-neede

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 09:14:40 -0800, a écrit : > I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default, but I > think it's clear how using --as-needed may benefit a distribution in terms > of reducing churn when library dependencies change. We agree on the second part, but

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.11.2010 10:42, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs (turning on --as-ne

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland McGrath: >> I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. > > It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the > initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I called anything in it. So it's more like static linking. 8-) IMHO, the current d

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 19:49:57 +0100, a écrit : > * Roland McGrath: > > >> I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or > >> unnecessary. > > > > It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the > > initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I cal

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#598471: using insecure memory on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-11-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 14 November 2010 23:35:39 Robert Millan wrote: > 2010/11/14 Werner Koch : > >> I don't have time to work on this myself. Unless someone else does, > >> I'd still recommend adding the SUID bit as a temporary solution. > > > > Might be the easiest way until we have proper disk encryption s

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:04:53PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 16.11.2010 10:42, Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > F