From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:44:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: define NEEDS_LIBRT under Linux, for now
Message-ID: <xmqqmvlo9fqh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160711103653.GA29598@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:16:44PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>> My Debian wheezy LTS system is still on glibc 2.13; and LTS
>> distros may use older glibc, still, so lets not unnecessarily
>> break things out-of-the-box.
>> 
>> We seem to assume Linux is using glibc in our Makefiles anyways,
>> so I don't think this will introduce new breakage for users of
>> alternative libc implementations.
>
> This is a good idea.  If it's broken with Debian wheezy, it will also be
> broken for RHEL/CentOS 6.  People who really want the slimmest linkage
> can use the -Wl,--as-needed flag.

Thanks all, will apply.