Re: [9fans] Loader dependencies

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Wed Apr 10 02:00:35 EDT 2013, sstallion@gmail.com wrote:

> I understand the taxonomy. I'm commenting on the general laziness of the
> change. Given that many of us tend to work on acl changes in isolation,
> this is an annoyance at best.

i think you misspelled "conservitivism."  ☺  imo, the elf patch
did a complete job of consolidating elf support, and
in some cases extending it to all elf-supporing arches.

what it didn't do is create an ld directory, but that's
a seperate issue.  and i could understand resisting adding it.

but i agree that an ld directory is probablly justified now,
and would simplify maintence.  for example, the recent
library search change that touched every linker, not just
the ld directory.  (there are more than 2 files that would
be in it.)  maybe it would also help for uimage support.

i considered doing this a few weeks ago, but the potential
differences with sources kept me from it.

regardless of the directory name, in your case the fix is
to copy the donor directory to the same parent as your
test linker.

- erik