[LTO merge][0/15] Description of the final 15 patches

Tue Sep 29 16:56:00 GMT 2009

On 09/29/2009 06:52 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini<bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> So all Diego needs to do is pass --enable-shared down to libiberty
>>> when --enable-lto/--enable-gold. The way to do that is something like
>>> the appended.
>>>> What about just always adding --enable-shared to the host libiberty?
>> That will just cause everybody to always compile libiberty twice. Why
> do that if we don't have to?

It's just a matter of time before we need to do that, anyway (say, when 
we have plugins that we distribute by default, for example for mudflap). 
 Conditionalizing on GCC could be a middle ground, or maybe the worst 
possible choice? :-)
Paolo