Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 03-10-2009 23:27:41 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> The amount of pkgs in tree with valid code that fails with asneeded is
>> close to zero. We can use this,
>>
>> if use userland_GNU; then
>> append-ldflags -Wl,--no-as-needed
>> fi
>>
>> logic so it won't cause you troubles. Or the obvious shorter && version
>> of it.
>
> Not really, because the userland is GNU, the compiler too, but the
> linker is not. We once played with a version of append-ldflags that
> tested the flag against the linker to see if it would work, but that's
> expensive as well as allowing real typos/bugs to go unnoticed.
>
> We currently do either a CHOST check, or call ld to see if it's GNU for
> all packages that hardcode -Wl,--{,no-}as-needed usage.
>
Ah. I wasn't aware of that.
Perhaps we could add a new function to the flag-o-matic that does the
CHOST check, and appends the flag, so the check code wouldn't have to be
duplicated in ebuilds? It should be rather trivial.
