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Re: [PATCH] --enable-gold=both
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:05:46AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:
>
> > When relying on a -B option it becomes difficult for e.g. configure
> > scripts to get to the ld/gold version wanted, as it's installed in a
> > separate path, which is not standardized. Passing an option gcc
> > without a specific location would be preferred from my point of view.
>
> Such an option would only work with new versions of gcc, and it will
> be many years before you can reasonably assume that a new version is
> out there. So it would not help in practice for configure scripts for
> many years. At which point I expect that gold will have either
> replaced GNU ld or will be dead, so the whole point will be moot.
I don't think so - it will make it into the major distributions faster
than that, and be a big help to distributors. And that encourages
adoption, which encourages gold not being dead...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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