Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

["Johannes Schauer" <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

Quoting The Wanderer (2014-01-22 15:14:34)
> Do things still work fine in Debian when using ld.gold (by installing the
> binutils-gold package) rather than ld.bfd? I know there's an important
> difference in ld.gold related to --as-needed (or possibly to -
> --no-as-needed, I don't recall offhand).

I dont think the binutils-gold package exists anymore. binutils-gold seems to
be provided by the binutils package which now seems to ship /usr/bin/ld.gold

Do you happen to know an easy, undisruptive way to test with ld.gold?

> I seem to recall that there are long-term plans to switch Debian over to
> ld.gold or to produce the same effect in ld.bfd, and that it's recommended
> (or at least preferred) to make sure your package builds with the gold
> linker; I suspect that this is the "similar change...  being discussed for
> Debian" mentioned in the ToolchainTransition article you linked.
> 
> There's no expected completion date for this AFAIK, but trying to be
> compliant with it isn't a bad idea; I've already got the upstream of
> something I haven't even packaged yet to accept a compliance patch, just
> based on test packaging attempts.

Thanks you for the information!

cheers, josch