Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El 20/03/12 07:46, Richard Guenther escribió:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
>
> > El 19/03/12 07:16, Richard Guenther escribió:
> >
> > > And no, switching the default linker to gold is not a good idea IMHO
> > > given its lack of architecture support for s390 and ia64 (I suppose
> > > only x86 and arm are well-tested, not idea about the powerpc state).
> >
> > Well, but what about switching to gold in those arches that it works or
> > provide an easy way to use it when building packages ?
> >
> > s390 could still use old LD and ia64..well, glibc has no support for IA64 any
> > longer, it was removed a few months ago.
>
> I believe gold does not support all the linker script features GNU ld
> does, especially I don't think gold can link the linux kernel.  Can it?
>
> Richard.

Apparently, both the kernel and glibc needs to be linked with GNU ld.. 
so adding an option to use binutils-gold during build might be the best 
solution for now.

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