Hi!
First message here on the list :)
Yesterday I came across go's -buildmode=shared and -linkshared options.
As far as I know, there hasn't been any discussion about them here.
In case you don't know what they do (just like myself a few days ago),
they can be used to achieve dynamic linking in Go programs. Unlike other
languages like C, though, binary compatibility is not guaranteed across
compiler releases. -buildmode=shared can be used while building to
generate a shared object, while -linkshared tells the toolchain to use
such shared objects for linking. More information can be found running
`go help buildmode` and at <https://go.dev/s/execmodes>.
Why aren't we using them in Debian? Did we already have this discussion,
and I have simply missed it?
Curious to know! Bye :)
My understanding is that they stopped doing so because it's generally got all the downsides of what we do now, but also introduces several more, like hassles during package upgrades (where the dependencies on rebuilds have to be just so or else nothing works properly), but I don't know if there was ever an official (public?) writeup about Ubuntu stopping doing that (I've added mwhudson on CC in the hopes he might know more / have a good href).
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