Suggestion: Occasionally take --hash-style=gnu out of the linker

Suggestion: Occasionally take --hash-style=gnu out of the linker

[Peter Seebach]

It occurred to me:

In theory, it's a bug if a package is configured such that it does not
actually request hash-style=gnu.  In practice, though, the yocto
toolchain is configured so that it's the default.

Maybe there should be a periodic build or two that uses a compiler not
configured that way, to flush out such packages?

-s
-- 
Listen, get this.  Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.

Re: Suggestion: Occasionally take --hash-style=gnu out of the linker

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Peter Seebach
<peter.seebach@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> In theory, it's a bug if a package is configured such that it does not
> actually request hash-style=gnu.  In practice, though, the yocto
> toolchain is configured so that it's the default.
>
> Maybe there should be a periodic build or two that uses a compiler not
> configured that way, to flush out such packages?

yes we tried that with classic OE for long time. it did not go much further than
we changing the recipes to add it to compiler cmdline and subtle bugs.
Right thing
would be to fix the packages but its a significant task. Besides OE most of
other distros use it as default so I dont think there will be many
fixes upstreamed
for respective packages.