[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] make sure $TMPE is executable

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:42:52PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:28:51PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:29:56PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > >> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> > >> > it seems that "GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.19.1) 1.7" has a strange bug
> > >> 
> > >> What's that?
> > >
> > > The "new", supposedly much better and faster (IIRC ELF-only?) linker...
> > > Or to put it simpler, that's what you get when you do experiments and
> > > set in Gentoo the "gold" use flag for binutils (and no Gentoo flaming,
> > > I knew what I was getting myself into, allowing people to shoot
> > > themselves in the foot is not generally a bit thing, if nothing else
> > > it helps evolution along - though mostly I was hoping that maybe then
> > > compiling C++ programs would no longer be about 10 times slower than
> > > plain C).
> > 
> > So apart form this little quirk, is it any better?  Not that I'm
> > concerned about linking times myself.
> 
> Haven't noticed a difference yet. Though I might when the next Qt update
> or something comes up. I'll probably notice when those libtool processes
> with several minutes of CPU time finally don't appear anymore (though I
> doubt that will happen...).

Even though its off-topic: There is no point in even bothering with
this, if you use the gold linker you can't even compile e.g.
libschroedinger or such obscure stuff as the linux kernel.
And I haven't even tried many applications (I guess one more case where
"optimized for C++" means "and don't expect it to even work for anything
else").