From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 05:01:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: remove the NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER flag
Message-ID: <20190519050115.GA2672@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190517215847.28179-1-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Fri, May 17 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> >
> >> Far be it from me to care about AIX, but it seems like this is ripe for
> >> regressions, because we don't know which platforms were relying on "-R"
> >> instead of "-Wl,-rpath", and now everybody will be using the latter by
> >> default.
> >
> > I do not have a stake in AIX, either, but I had the same reaction.
> 
> I did a bad job of summarizing why this change makes sense. Here's a
> v2 with a changed commit message. The first 4 pargaraphs are most
> relevant.

Thanks for the additional context. After reading the revised
explanation, I agree it's probably OK to move in this direction.

-Peff