Re: binutils 2.17 branch

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:47:04PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Seriously, it's still somewhat of a hack.  The fact that we throw away
> > syms added for an unneeded lib means I'm relying on nothing
> > (eg. backend add_symbol_hook) keeping pointers into the symbol hash
> > table apart from the ones I already handle (undefs, sym_hashes).
> 
> Yeah, I noticed that.  I see why you did it this way, though, and I
> think it will work better now than before - but I'd like it to have
> a bit of testing before it goes into a release; Debian folks have
> been complaining about bad --as-needed behavior since they discovered
> it.

I'll provide my --as-needed testing results with 5000+ packages from
ALT Sisyphus in a few days.


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