Re: gold and 2.20 release

[Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>]

On 13.10.2009 23:51, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Matthias Klose<doko@ubuntu.com>  writes:
> > gold is now required for some GCC lto optimizations, so (as a packager
> > for a distribution) I would like to ship it in an appropriate way, not
> > getting in the way of ld, but having gold available if it's
> > needed. Currently you can only use either the old ld or gold, there's
> > no possibility to tell gcc which linker to use, which might introduce
> > some regressions if you always use gold instead of ld. Is there a way
> > to tell gcc which linker to use?
>
> Put the linker in an otherwise empty directory under the name "ld".
> Then invoke gcc with a -B option pointing to that directory.

this approach has the disadvantage that this directory is hard to discover and 
maybe will be different depending on the os/system you use. we could agree on a 
common location like /usr/lib/gold or /usr/lib/gold/bin, but I would prefer a 
solution which is independent of the location.

  Matthias