[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: add configure option to disable LTO/gold

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:52:50PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2015-02-18 20:34 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> > Well, why patch anything? You already have a configure option, just by
> > adding LDFLAGS= and CFLAGS= to the end of the configure line. What's
> > the point of having an explicit option for that?
> 
> What is the reason to override the default linker anyway? systemd
> really shouldn't do that.

To encourage the adoption of a more modern pipeline? The ./configure option
to switch the linker is trivial, so I don't see why this is such an issue.

Zbyszek