Re: Accepted numerix 0.21-2 (source i386 all)
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Florian Weimer wrote:
> Unfortunately, this patch doesn't fix the problem. Maybe Ocaml itself
> needs to be compiled with -ffunctio-sections, or the linker error
> message is wrong.
Yes, I reopened the bug (#332902) after seeing this too. It appears
there may be something else wrong, as there is a bug against binutils
where someone else ran into this and -ffunction-sections didn't work.
So I reassigned 332902 to binutils and merged them. IMO, adding that
option to all of OCaml is a bad idea based on the notes in the gcc manpage:
Only use these options when there are significant benefits from
doing so. When you specify these options, the assembler and linker
will create larger object and executable files and will also be
slower. You will not be able to use "gprof" on all systems if you
specify this option and you may have problems with debugging if you
specify both this option and -g.
Losing the ability to use -p and -g is a serious drawback and not an
acceptable workaround. Of course, there is a (not so small)
possibility that this is a bug in OCaml. However, since at least one
program written in another language is affected as well(#334497), I
think the best action is to at least look at it from a binutils point of
view for now.
Cheers,
- -Mike
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