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Re: [PATCH] Enable building glibc with gold.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:09:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable building glibc with gold.
- References: <50ECF5AD.70602@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1301091701000.22752@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 01/09/2013 12:03 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> - Supports building glibc with gold 1.11 or newer.
>> - gold 1.11 is an arbitrary choice based on my testing.
>
> The version number should be documented in install.texi (and INSTALL
> regenerated), with whatever caveats there may be about use of gold. But,
> I've no idea what gold version numbers mean; I'd rather document and test
> for the version of GNU binutils containing a known-good version of gold,
> rather than for a separate gold version number.
Joseph,
I'll add an entry into INSTALL and mention this in NEWS.
Ian,
What does the gold version number really mean and should we track that
or should we use the binutils versions?
Cheers,
Carlos.