From 8e482321805542e08eaf8819a6ad94ea4ba20370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Ericson Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 17:51:18 +0000 Subject: 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. --- pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix') diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix index 6fe953e163f..f9c5c711655 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix @@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ , 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 , flex -- cgit 1.4.1