On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:52:14AM +0100, Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote: > Am Montag, den 13.11.2017, 11:02 +0100 schrieb Igor Gnatenko: > > Hello, > > > > I'm interested why we still don't have this flag in our CFLAGS? It > > seems that > > other distributions like openSUSE enable it by default and it helps > > in many > > cases to avoid over-linking (for example, see thread about poppler). > > > > Are there any reasons not to add it? > > > Hello Igor, > > that specific flag should be in LDFLAGS, but there are reasons, we do > NOT have it in there, because it will likely break any binaries built > from or containing FORTRAN sources. They will simply SEGFAULT, because > `-Wl,--as-needed` causes some needed runtime libraries NOT being linked > with them, because the linker thinks they are not needed / would over > link. What % of our distro involves fortran though ? Could this be as simple as enabling it by default, but having an easy way via an RPM macro to opt-out of it in the handleful of packages that matter wrt fortran. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
