Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/ld/emultempl

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:27:25PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> "Rin Okuyama" writes:
> > Module Name:	src
> > Committed By:	rin
> > Date:		Mon Sep 11 01:54:18 UTC 2023
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > 	src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/ld/emultempl: aarch64elf.em armelf.em
> > 	    elf.em
> >
> > Log Message:
> > ld: Enable --copy-dt-needed-entries by default again
> 
> thanks for fixing -lcurses.
> 
> can we put this into bsd.*.mk instead?
> 
> ie, if we want this, declare it explicitly, rather than
> reply upon patched binutils?  (this is eg, unfriendly to
> EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN etc.)

We (TNF) consider this the default a bug. Red Hat etc who've been
pushing for this mess don't, for reasons that don't really make sense.
Basically, the Linux toolchain folks decided that ELF should no longer
be recursive except it still is for every use case were performance
matters.

Joerg