From cbe7ea070802720a97deced1094beb6f06649a70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:03:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] releng: rough-in support for linking with GOLD

---
 configure    |  4 ++++
 configure.ac | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 9deb35315..1536963f2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5680,6 +5680,9 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
 fi
 
+
+
+
 # Compiling without fPIE by default (see PR 9922)
 # Check whether --enable-pie was given.
 if test "${enable_pie+set}" = set; then :
@@ -7365,6 +7368,7 @@ fi
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: stap will link $stap_LIBS" >&5
 $as_echo "$as_me: stap will link $stap_LIBS" >&6;}
 
+
 date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eb4593a5a..4b88cfd09 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -65,6 +65,20 @@ AS_IF([test "x$enable_ssp" != xno],[
        CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
        CXXFLAGS="$save_CXXFLAGS"])])
 
+
+dnl Link with gold if possible
+dnl but: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636603
+dnl
+dnl AC_PATH_PROG(GOLD, [ld.gold], [no])
+dnl if test "x$GOLD" != "xno"
+dnl then
+dnl   mkdir -p Bdir
+dnl   ln -sf $GOLD Bdir/ld
+dnl   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -B`pwd`/Bdir/"
+dnl   AC_MSG_NOTICE([using ld.gold to link])
+dnl fi
+
+
 # Compiling without fPIE by default (see PR 9922)
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([pie],
   [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-pie], [enable position-independent-executable])])
@@ -437,6 +451,7 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(stap_LIBS)
 AC_MSG_NOTICE([stap will link $stap_LIBS])
 
+
 dnl Plop in the build (configure) date
 date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DATE, "$date", [Configuration/build date])
-- 
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