[opensuse-factory] Gold
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List, I propose using the gold linker as a default for Factory for C++ projects. There are some packages that might not build with it but for the most part I would imagine no significant issues. Tangible benefits: (*) Build service builds should be generally faster:- gold's sole purpose is to link faster than the gnu linker (*) LTO - gcc lto and gold linker work really well together Cons: (*) Some large projects are known to build or not build depending on version (gold bug or other project bug unknown) (*) people don't like change I spotted chromium taking advantage of gold already, where else can we leverage it to gain a few extra spare build hosts for other stuff?
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El 06/04/12 14:40, Graham Anderson escribió:
List,
I propose using the gold linker as a default for Factory for C++ projects.
There are some packages that might not build with it but for the most part I would imagine no significant issues.
It has been previously suggested to allow gold to be used while building packages, so far nothing has come up... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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On Friday 06 Apr 2012 15:14:41 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 06/04/12 14:40, Graham Anderson escribió:
List,
I propose using the gold linker as a default for Factory for C++ projects.
There are some packages that might not build with it but for the most part I would imagine no significant issues.
It has been previously suggested to allow gold to be used while building packages, so far nothing has come up...
binutils-gold since 2.20? I'm not convinced it has to be a sub-package but I didn't look at the changelog too closely.
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Graham Anderson wrote:
List,
I propose using the gold linker as a default for Factory for C++ projects.
There are some packages that might not build with it but for the most part I would imagine no significant issues.
Tangible benefits:
(*) Build service builds should be generally faster:- gold's sole purpose is to link faster than the gnu linker (*) LTO - gcc lto and gold linker work really well together
LTO and GNU ld work really well together, too. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Cristian Rodríguez
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Graham Anderson
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Richard Guenther