Review of --enable-gold=both patch

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/12/2010 07:44 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 11.11.2010 09:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 11/11/2010 01:08 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> + no)
>>> + if test x${ENABLE_GOLD} != xyes; then
>>> + AC_MSG_ERROR([gold must be enabled to disable ld])
>>> + fi
>>
>> I think this is not necessary, you can disable both packages. This
>> would have
>> the same effect as --without-gnu-ld. Please conditionalize the message on
>> $use_gnu_ld != no and make it a warning rather than an error.
>
> in the context of binutils, at least one linker should be built?

Not necessarily, if the user wants the rope.  Have you tried configuring 
binutils --without-gnu-ld?

Paolo