[gold] Enable plugins by default?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
> PR gold/15599 points out that plugins are enabled for Gnu ld by
> default, but configuring with --enable-gold leaves you without plugin
> support. Does anyone know any reason not to make --enable-plugins=yes
> the default for gold?

Of course gold got plugins before GNU ld.  But if they are the default
for GNU ld, they probably ought to be the default for gold.  Both
linkers should ideally use the same set of configure tests to decide
whether to enable plugins.

Ian