[PATCH 0 of 3] Add support for using gold instead of ld

[Bryan Hundven]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Yann E. MORIN
> <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> This patchset is a tentative at using gold in place of ld with recent
>> binutils (2.21 at least).
>>
>> Currently, glibc can not be built with gold (fails on the ld version
>> check), and uClibc builds fine with a minor edit in the linker flags
>> (which is already applied upstream).
>>
>> Basically, the patch series adds support for building gold or ld or
>> both, and in the latter case, set which is the default. It also adds
>> a (shell) wrapper that can override the default at runtime.
>>
>> Shortlog:
>>  binutils/binutils: add BINUTILS_2_21_or_later blind option
>>  binutils/binutils: add option to enable gold
>>  binutils/binutils: add wrapper to gold and ld
>>
>> Diffstat:
>>  b/config/binutils/binutils.in           |   88    88     0     0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  b/scripts/build/binutils/binutils-ld.in |   11    11     0     0 ++++
>>  b/scripts/build/binutils/binutils.sh    |   37    36     1     0 +++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
> That is incomplete You also need to pass --enable-gold to gcc's
> configure to build the linker plugin.

Right. Is this only when ld.gold is ld?
Or just when gold is enabled at all.

>  - Arnaud
>
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Yann,

I will test this stuff tonight (-0800) with the gcc --enable-gold option.

-Bryan

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