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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Patch Tracking <patches@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads: Make sure TLS tests link against pthreads.
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130612102642.GO3969@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANu=DmhfirgXvZC9txdj+=uSV3mpbOY2j7EQQzE7BxisGoZp8Q@mail.gmail.com>

> > I think this should be an debian/Ubuntu local only patch as the
> > default for FSF GCC/binutils is not to pass --as-needed.
> 
> I admit the change is a little, erm, weird, but my hope was to avoid
> causing pain to people who build gdb on Ubuntu. This isn't just Ubunto
> or Debian developers but Ubuntu or Debian users that happen to have
> downloaded a gdb tarball from gnu.org. Similar test failures in
> binutils have been worked around by adding -Wl,--no-as-needed which we
> could also do here, but I was concerned that this may break non-gcc
> compilers.

I tend to agree that it can be potentially useful, and since it does
not appear to be very disruptive, I find it acceptable in principle.
I just haven't had time to look into it in more details...

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07 18:41 Will Newton
2013-06-11 23:39 ` Andrew Pinski
2013-06-12 10:26   ` Will Newton
2013-06-12 11:57     ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2013-07-17 18:16   ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-17 18:18 ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-17 19:05   ` Mark Kettenis
2013-07-17 20:17   ` Will Newton

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