Re: RFA/RFC: Enable both gold and ld in a single toolchain

[Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:00 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> ?Thanks very much for the feedback on my original patch. ?Attached below is
>> a revised version in which I have tried to take into account all of the
>> suggestions that were made.
>>
>> ?H.J. - I apologise for forgetting that you had already submitted a patch
>> that does basically the same thing as my patch. ?I have adopted most of the
>> ideas from your patch into this revised version, but with a few changes:
>>
>
> I really don't like "-Luse-gold"/"-Luse-ld". It is asking for trouble. What if
> I have a library called `libuse-gold.so"? Why can't we add a real new
> option? Also gold may be installed as `ld'. ?How about -muse-gold/use-gld
> or -muse-ld.gold/-muse-ld.bfd?

-fuse-linker-plugin and --with-plugin-ld works just fine for me.

Richard.

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> H.J.
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