[PATCH 2/2 v5] gold: enable new dtags by default

[Andreas Schwab]

Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 08:32:13AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>> > I wonder if it would make sense to add a -runpath option to set DT_RUNPATH.
>
>> This is a good idea.
>
> Isn't it more or less an alias for -rpath, --enable-new-dtags?  Given
> that is the case, people won't use the option in Makefiles if they
> care about ld compatibility!  So why add an option that potentially
> causes trouble for careless people?

OTOH, --enable-new-dtags is really misnamed, and it might be a good
opportunity to deprecate it.

Andreas.

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