Bugzilla Bug 218925

When I merge seahorse-2.20.3 I get:

WARN: compile
QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function ... simply drop it from your ebuild

I have seen that also 2.22 ebuilds include:

src_compile() {
        append-ldflags $(bindnow-flags)
        gnome2_src_compile
}

Thanks

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.23-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer
multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="es en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 asf audiofile avahi
bash-completion beagle berkdb bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdb cdda cddb cdparanoia
cdr cli cpdflib cpudetection cracklib cross crypt cups curl daap dbus dga
divx4linux djvu dlloader dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode erandom
escreen evo evolution exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp galago
gb gcj gd ggi gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut glx gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print
gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hddtemp iconv idn imagemagick imlib
isdnlog ithreads jabber java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility latex
lcms libnotify lm_sensors logrotate mad madwifi midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng
mono motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mudflap musepack musicbrainz nas nautilus
ncurses nethack network nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal
opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png posix ppds pppd python
qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection remote rtc scanner sdl session slang slp
sockets spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysvipc tcltk tcpd
tetex theora threads tiff timidity tk totem trayicon truetype unicode usb v4l
v4l2 vcd videos vim vorbis wma wmf xattr xcb xcomposite xft xine xml xml2 xorg
xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem
bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel
intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es
en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


Reproducible: Always

Until I'm told what it does and why this is suddendly deprecated I'm not
changing it.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Until I'm told what it does and why this is suddendly deprecated I'm not
> changing it.
> 

I don't know what does it :-(, but reading flag-o-matic.eclass:

# @FUNCTION: bindnow-flags
# @RETURN: Returns the flags to enable "now" binding in the current selected
linker.
# @DESCRIPTION:
# DEPRECATED - Gets the flags needed for "NOW" binding
bindnow-flags() {
        ewarn "QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function ... simply drop it
from your ebuild" >&2
...

Seems that this eclass is maintained by toolchain@gentoo.org then, hopefully,
they will know more about this 

@Toolchain, we need your help on that one...

Thanks

that's a pretty stupid position to take ... it's obviously been deprecated ...
the only reason i havent outright deleted the function is so people can drop it
from their ebuilds

i guess i'll drop it from the eclass and then you can leave it in if you like

the background on the function has been announced/discussed in other (relevant)
circles

*** Bug 226947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

thanks to diego, I've now seen the light. For others, the dynamic linker is now
just smart enough to switch behavior as needed for setXid binaries hence the
static linker flag is now useless.