PATCH: Support --enable-gold=both --with-linker=[bfd|gold]

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 21:40:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
>
>>> I'm still not entirely convinced that this is the way to go.  It seems
>>> to me that ideally one wants to be able to select the linker at
>>> runtime.  I don't see how this patch supports that.  What am I
>>> missing?
>>
>> It covers the first step by letting you run "ld.bfd" or "ld.gold" to
>> choose.  Having the two binaries installed by those names is a good start
>> and seems likely to be part of how any fancier plan would work, so why not
>> start there?
>
> 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.
>

Plugin only works with gold. So I configured my gcc with

-with-plugin-ld=ld.gold

If both linkers have the same name, it will be harder to
use ld by default and use gold only for plugin.

-- 
H.J.



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