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Make no-copy-dt-needed default?
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:40:29 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Make no-copy-dt-needed default?
Hello,
what do people think about switching the default for
add_DT_NEEDED_for_dynamic to false, i.e. make --no-copy-dt-needed-entries
the default for GNU ld?
The linux distros Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu already do that with local
patches, openSUSE is going to follow suit, and AFAIK gold has the same
behaviour (without the possibility to change it). It potentially can
cause some minor hickups with current build systems, exactly in those
cases where people relied on other libraries being included via recursive
DT_NEEDED instead of listing the dependencies in the link editing command,
i.e. in cases that would break already right now with static archives.
As Fedora and Debian are using this switched default already for some
time I'd expect most projects with an active upstream would be fixed
meanwhile. A good summary of what exactly is implied by such a change is
e.g. at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange .
I realize that just because some random linux distros are doing something
shouldn't necessarily imply a change in upstream binutils, but in this
case I think it makes sense.
So, should I propose a patch?
Ciao,
Michael.