Re: [PATCH] Fix oopsie in ld-plugin tests.

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 14/10/2010 14:38, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Dave,
>> 
>> I haven't closely followed your commits.  Are the ld-plugin patches commit
>> completed ?
>> 
>> Tristan.
>> 
> 
>  I hope you don't mind, I Cc'd the list in so that everyone can be aware of
> the plan.
> 
>  There are two matters outstanding (the fix for the testsuite problems aside):
> 
> 1- Libltdl-ization of the makefile and configury parts so that mingw can run.
> I'm starting on this next and should be able to post it tomorrow.
> 
> 2- I may need to add support for rescanning libraries after the plugin adds
> object files.  This is something I've just only just run into while porting
> the gcc lto-plugin, and it may be something that ends up being addressed in
> the plugin rather than in ld, but I need to get some advice from the gcc list
> to clarify the semantics of how the plugin and linker are supposed to interact
> before I can be sure.  If it does need fixing in ld, it's probably no more
> than a day or two to get it working.
> 
>  So, best case before the weekend, worst case early next week it should be
> complete.  How is that with you?

Thank you for explaining the plan.

I am fine with that.  As far as I know nobody asked very loudly for a release immediately :-)

Tristan.