On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: > Note from Change Wrangler: This Change Proposal requires mass rebuild. > However, two weeks ago (June 19th), we have already passed the > deadline for Change proposals requiring mass rebuild. I will leave the > decision whether this Change proposal is accepted or not to RelEng and > FESCo teams. > > = Proposed System Wide Change: Remove Excessive Linking = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveExcessiveLinking > > > Owner(s): > * Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain at fedoraproject dot org> > * Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail dot com> > > > Pass "--as-needed" flag the linker through default system-wide LDFLAGS. > > > == Detailed description == > The flag ("--as-needed") tells the linker to link in the produced > binary only the libraries containing symbols actually used by the > binary itself. This binary can be either a final executale or another > library. > The use of the "--as-needed" flag allows the linker to avoid linking > extra libraries in a binary. This not only improves startup times (as > the loader does not have to load all the libraries for every step) but > might avoid the full initialization of big frameworks. Well, --as-needed is workaround and nothing else. The real problem is mess in makefiles and .pc (pkg-config) files. It would be better to use --as-needed for testing purpose only, and ask maintainers why the result with --as-needed is different. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/MYHBQVFB3ZWBAUVPNN3PCM2OVYUKXXU5/
