[csw-maintainers] Proposal: direct binding for all the opencsw software stack

[Peter FELECAN]

Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org> writes:

> But if everybody is ok with it, here is how we could try to enable it to
> gradually:
>
>  1. write a checkpkg test to test if direct binding if properly enabled in
> a package,
>  2. enable Direct Binding manually for a reduced set of packages (at least
> my packages :) )
>      (we just have to pass "-Bdirect" to SUN ld)
>  3. wait a bit to see if something unexpected happens :)
>  3. if it works, enable it by globally adding the option to LINKER_FLAGS
>  4. enable the checkpkg direct binding test by default so we can catch even
> packages that don't use LDFLAGS

Fully agree with the sole condition that there must be a mechanism to
inhibit this behavior; by consequence, the check can be also overridden.

-- 
Peter