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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS
From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date: 2008-05-31 23:57:46
Message-ID: pan.2008.05.31.23.57.46 () cox ! net
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Mike Auty <ikelos@gentoo.org> posted 4841A7DA.7060605@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on Sat, 31 May 2008 20:32:42 +0100:
> I think you're looking for the wrong things. I'm not an expert, but I
> think --as-needed means that if there are 20 libraries on your system
> that use libexpat.so.0 and 400 programs that use those 20 libraries,
> when libexpat is updated to libexpat.so.1, you only need to rebuild the
> 20 libraries, not all 420 packages (as you would do otherwise). I
> believe that's the main reason for using as-needed...
That has certainly been my experience. I've had way less rebuilds to
worry about since I added that to my LDFLAGS and rebuilt the system.
revdep-rebuild -p, which I run regularly after major world upgrades,
returns far fewer packages to rebuild, now.
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