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

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnaud, Bryan, All,

On Wednesday 29 December 2010 00:16:13 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Yann E. MORIN
> <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 December 2010 20:31:04 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> That said, it would seem that the default linker depends. As I'd
> >> understand it so far, gcc maintain its own set of tools in its
> >> internal directory structure (the one containing "as", "ld", ...) use
> >> them to access the actual linker.
> >
> > I am not sure I understand this. Are you talking about a combined tree?
> > We are not using a combined tree, and gcc does not have the source for
> > as, ld gold, or [...] in its tree.
> >
> > But yet, when we build the 'core' gcc, we copy binutils' tools into the
> > core gcc install dir, so that it can find them.
> >
> no, I was speaking about the final content of
> ${PREFIX}/${TARGET_TUPLE}/bin, which seem to be a copy of the tools
> available in ${PREFIX}/bin.

Ah, OK, right. In fact, it's binutils installing them in this place and they
are hardlinks to the tools in prefix/bin.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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