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Re: [PATCH 2/2 v5] gold: enable new dtags by default


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 08:32:13AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>>> > I wonder if it would make sense to add a -runpath option to set DT_RUNPATH.
>>
>>> This is a good idea.
>>
>> Isn't it more or less an alias for -rpath, --enable-new-dtags?  Given
>> that is the case, people won't use the option in Makefiles if they
>> care about ld compatibility!  So why add an option that potentially
>> causes trouble for careless people?
>
> OTOH, --enable-new-dtags is really misnamed, and it might be a good
> opportunity to deprecate it.
>

Maybe we should add ---enable-dt-flags and --enable-dt-runpath.


-- 
H.J.


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