On Thursday 27 November 2014 15:42:37 David Herrmann wrote: > We _really_ depend on --gc-sections. We link a lot of stuff from > src/shared/ statically into all binaries and expect the linker to drop > any unused symbols. Note that none of the symbols from src/shared/ are > exported, so the linker can drop them safely. > > I don't get why we work around linker bugs in systemd? The bug was > fixed upstream, so make them backport it, if it's a critical bug. If > they refuse to do so, blacklist the given version. But I dislike > carrying fixes for other software in systemd-git.
I was under the impression that the gold linker and this option were optional, especially given the commit message that notes performance (size) advantages. Fine, drop the patch. I don't care about merging it as binutils is fixed anyway. -- Kind regards, Peter https://lekensteyn.nl _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel