Reverting the mold linker

[Laurent Montel]

Le 06.10.2026 00:43, Albert Astals Cid a écrit :

>> But it seems that you don't care to apply your rules to you.
>> 
>> 
>> I didn't know that you maintain something in pim*
> 
> Please, let's try to keep this discussion civil.

be civil will be first to discussing with maintainer no ?


> Being a maintainer doesn't necessarily mean that a particular decision 
> is the
> right one for the project.

so a discussion without main developer is ok for you.



As I can see he knows the email about mailing list (kde-pim), so if he 
wanted
to discuss or inform about it he could use this ML no  (but not 10 
seconds before
reverting) ?


So there is two rules:
- One rule from him in framework: "We must use MR, otherwise I reverse 
without discussion."
- One rule for him in other project: "I don't care about maintainer", 
even if I don't participate
really to the project.



> From reading both the comments here and in Matrix it seems that forcing 
> mold
> in cmake is causing problems for some people.


Where is bugs report about it ?
Where is the mail in ML about it?


I didn't see CI broken about it. I build from year with mold without 
problem.

There was an option for disabling it "-DUSE_MOLD_LINKER=OFF"

It will use only if system has it. It's not a hard dependancy.


> 
> For those who want to use mold, setting the linker should be as simple 
> as
> adding -DCMAKE_LINKER_TYPE=MOLD to their scripts.
> 
> From my perspective, removing the forced use of mold seems like a 
> reasonable
> approach: it addresses the problems people are experiencing while still
> allowing those who want mold to enable it relatively easily.


This revert was not ok as he didn't revert the change in CMakePreset => 
now
we can't use mold easily.


Regards


> 
> Best Regards,
>   Albert