[PATCH] [GNU] Implement --enable-new-dtags/--disable-new-dtags

[Ed Maste]

On 6 April 2015 at 17:23, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 02:15:58PM -0700, Rui Ueyama wrote:
>> Anyways, my point is that the change to the linker for this feature might
>> be trivial, so it'd be easy to understand what is done here. But it would
>> not help readers of the code understand why we want to do that. So I wanted
>> to add a comment on that (a brief comment should suffice).
>
> I fully agree on that. First time I saw the option was like "WTF do they
> need this?"

Good point. Do you think we should go further and either just use
DT_RUNPATH when we know the system's rtld supports it, or set both
DT_RUNPATH and DT_RPATH in all cases?

The "broken" DT_RPATH behaviour is as specified in gabi41.pdf, but I'm
not sure that anyone really wants that. It seems a bit unfortunate to
have the sensible behaviour hidden behind an option.