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Re: PATCH: Support --enable-gold=both --with-linker=[bfd|gold]
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
>> Mainly because an alternative is to install them in subdirectories
>> with the name ld. Then gcc can run them directly using a -B option.
>> I don't know which approach is best.
>
> I think it keeps things simplest for humans to understand if the actual
> binaries are available as ld.bfd and ld.gold. If you then want some
> obscure directory names containing an "ld" for gcc's use, then make those
> symlinks. Personally, I think -Wl,--gold (via $(bindir)/ld being a wrapper
> script) is nicer than -B/usr/libexec/binutils/gold/ or whatnot.
OK, HJ's approach is OK with me.
I would still like another binutils maintainer to take a look at the
patch, once he updates it for my comments.
Ian