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Re: [PATCH 2/2 v5] gold: enable new dtags by default
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:43:04PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>> It seems that we have made sensible-seeming decisions to wind up in an
>>> absurd place.
>>
>> Right, so where did we go wrong? I think it was in assuming that we
>> could default to --enable-new-dtags. Users were affected. (I'm
>> assuming HJ's PR ld/15096 came from a real world problem.)
>>
>> I propose reverting HJ's patch, and Mike's and Roland's 2013-02-21
>> patches. That will leave us with just Mike's 2013-01-18 change to
>> disable old dtags when new dtags are selected. If people want new
>> dtags by default, do so via the gcc driver.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to add a -runpath option to set DT_RUNPATH.
>
This is a good idea.
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H.J.