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authorJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2021-01-03 17:51:18 +0000
committerJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2021-01-03 19:19:09 +0000
commit8e482321805542e08eaf8819a6ad94ea4ba20370 (patch)
treed4f19fc9ea6112f2f9573497963192a6e561f884 /pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7
parentf52263ced0937e72453e7fbce9fefb5f425f650b (diff)
gcc: Always pass `--enable-shared` by default
I am actually a bit skeptical about this, but @matthewbauer makes the case for this in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/107238#discussion_r546454453 and I'm happy to go with it not being as in the loop on static linking stuff as he is.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
index fd2961f3c93e..e0be04234deb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@
, profiledCompiler ? false
, langJit ? false
, staticCompiler ? false
-, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
+, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
+ # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
+ # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
+ # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
+ # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
+ enableShared ? true
, enableLTO ? true
, texinfo ? null
, perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)