From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Deliberate deduplication of -rpath arguments in ld.bfd and ld.gold?
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:32:29 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2207061125130.24606@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38ff8f84-c34c-8a90-6070-4cbe62835940@redhat.com>
Hello,
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Stephan Bergmann via Binutils wrote:
> Over in the comments at <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129142> "[LLD][ELF] Drop
> duplicates from rpath" we wonder what the rationale might be that both ld.bfd
> and ld.gold apparently deliberately drop duplicated -rpath arguments with
> identical paths
The rationale would be "avoid waste in the real world". If you don't do
that then you will find that when building certain software it will end up
with hundreds of copies of things like "RUNPATH
/usr/lib/my-strange-module-path/" because its build-system is strange, and
blindly collects linker arguments from e.g. pkg-config files, but doesn't
remove duplicates itself. As the runtime linker doesn't do duplicate
removal either (speed!) it would then end up looking into loading the same
non-existing file that same hundred times.
Instead of fixing all these build systems, something simply has to remove
the duplicates and the linker is the most sensible choice.
Ciao,
Michael.
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