On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Fri, May 17 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> Far be it from me to care about AIX, but it seems like this is ripe for > >> regressions, because we don't know which platforms were relying on "-R" > >> instead of "-Wl,-rpath", and now everybody will be using the latter by > >> default. > > > > I do not have a stake in AIX, either, but I had the same reaction. > > I did a bad job of summarizing why this change makes sense. Here's a > v2 with a changed commit message. The first 4 pargaraphs are most > relevant. Thanks for the additional context. After reading the revised explanation, I agree it's probably OK to move in this direction. -Peff
