[oe] [RFC] make "LDFLAGS ignored" QA errors fatal

[Khem Raj]

On 4/6/09, Jeremy Lainé <jeremy.laine at bolloretelecom.eu> wrote:
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> I have spent quite some time cleaning up a bunch of recipes which were
> triggering "LDFLAGS ignored" QA errors, and I don't really want to
> have to do this again in the future. I suggest we stop whitelisting
> this kind of QA error, using the attached patch.
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> To track down the faulty packages I have made use of oestats output
> (note that not all QA errors are "LDFLAGS ignored"):
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> http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/?qalog=1
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> In most cases, the problem is that recipes simply pass
> - -L${STAGING_LIBDIR} as LDFLAGS instead of using the full ${LDFLAGS}
> variable. The result is that flags such as --hash-style=gnu are
> getting ignored.

I think we should configure toolchain to pass this flags by gcc driver
while linking instead of making it a part of LDFLAGS it should help in
recipes which use gcc to link.

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> What are your thoughts?
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> - --
> Jeremy LAINE
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