[PATCH] install: Delete scripts/output-format.sed and support lld

Fāng-ruì Sòng maskray@google.com
Mon Aug 31 18:52:24 GMT 2020


On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:07 AM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
> * Fāng-ruì Sòng:
>
> > LLD will not support --print-output-format.
> >
> > OUTPUT_FORMAT might be useful at some point and is still needed for
> > unified i386/x86-64 directory trees, but not when distributions use
> > different directory trees for multiarch.
>
> Sorry, I think it's not worthwhile to support LLD for building glibc
> if it produces output that offers different functionality.  Bitwise
> identical output is of course not necessary, but disabling parts of
> the build output because it is inconvenient to build them using LLD is
> not the right direction, in my opinion.

Grabbing elf64-x86-64 from objdump -f libc.so.6 . Is this acceptable?

Or are you simply against removing scripts/output-format.sed


More information about the Libc-alpha mailing list