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Bug 669804 - Should use --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for GNU ld
Should use --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for GNU ld
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: jhbuild
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Jhbuild maintainers
Jhbuild QA
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-02-10 13:46 UTC by Colin Walters
Modified: 2014-01-02 06:05 UTC
See Also:
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Description Colin Walters 2012-02-10 13:46:56 UTC 
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/02/msg00011.html

Basically if we aren't doing this upstream, downstreams which have flipped the linker flag (correctly IMO) are going to keep hating us.
Comment 1 Frederic Peters 2012-02-10 13:51:49 UTC 
Not all GNOME developers are using JHBuild, should this also be an announce to ddl?
Comment 2 Colin Walters 2012-02-10 14:21:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Not all GNOME developers are using JHBuild, should this also be an announce to
> ddl?

I think the task here is:

1) Figure out how to pass down this flag sanely in jhbuild (set it in LDFLAGS in the environment?)
2) Do some smoketesting of a build of the moduleset with this, at least get up to gtk+
3) Announce the proposed change
4) Make the change

So unless we have a sane way for developers to test this out (step 1), I don't see the value in announcing anything (step 3)
Comment 3 Frederic Peters 2012-02-10 14:28:57 UTC 
Regarding 2), the Debian change has been announced in February 2011, I (and others, certainly) have been doing many builds since then. The surge of "fix your linker flags" bug reports is over, now.
Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2012-02-10 15:37:42 UTC 
Mageia still has 3-5 patches for linking issues. I wrote a script to monitor Mageia patches and will push them upstream.
Comment 5 Colin Walters 2012-02-10 23:35:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Mageia still has 3-5 patches for linking issues. I wrote a script to monitor
> Mageia patches and will push them upstream.

What the hell?  Did they forget how to send email or file bugs?
Comment 6 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2014-01-02 06:05:43 UTC 
I think this bug is mostly dead.  --no-copy-dt-needed-entries is the default these days on pretty much every system and it seems that we have no major breakage left caused by this.

Please reopen if you disagree.