[PATCH 04 of 10] binutils/binutils: add support for gold plugins

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnaud, All,

On Friday 31 December 2010 01:14:43 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > +config BINUTILS_GOLD_PLUGINS
> > +    bool
> > +    prompt "|  Enable gold support for plugins"
> > +    depends on BINUTILS_GOLD_INSTALLED
> > +    help
> > +      gold can be extended through the use of plugins.
> > +      Especially, gold can use the lto-plugin, as installed
> > +      by gcc, to handle LTO.
> > +
> This should be abstracted; gold is just a plug-in user. People may
> want to just enable binutils plugins' support for plugins without
> carrying about gold.

Do you mean that gold is not theonly binary utility that can use plugins?

> That said, someone wanting this will certainly 
> not use ct-ng to build toolchains ...

That was mean. :-(

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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