gold is faster and a few things (e.g. llvm) have started to require it -- but
at the moment, it isn't
possible to build everything with gold (e.g. gold can't link glibc, building
VirtualBox with gold seems to
cause corrupted debug info, ...).
Distributions are starting to come up with hacks to make both coexist (e.g.
suse seems to have
/usr/bin/ld==old ld, /usr/bin/gold==gold, hacked in gcc option to make it use
gold on request, using
traditional ld by default; we're thinking about /usr/bin/ld==gold,
/usr/bin/gnuld==old ld, hacked in gcc
option to make it use gnuld on request, using gold by default).
To prevent lots of incompatible hacks to make a coexistence of ld and gold
possible, one way
should be added upstream.
--
Summary: There should be a way for ld and gold to coexist
Product: binutils
Version: 2.21 (HEAD)
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: gold
AssignedTo: ian at airs dot com
ReportedBy: bero at arklinux dot org
CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10938
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