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. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> SUSE / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer