Am 22.08.2013 01:36, schrieb Miles Bader: > Recent changes get rid of the binutils-gold package and put gold in > the normal binutils package. A side effect of this is that ld.bfd is > now the default, whereas ld.gold was the default with binutils-gold > install. > > Is there an official way to make ld.gold the default with the new > state of things, or is one expected to just manually change the > symlink in /usr/bin?
yes, pass -fuse-ld=gold to the linker. > [Also, is there a reason gold _isn't_ the default? It seems to have > more features (e.g. --icf), and is apparently significantly faster on > large apps, so ...] how many packages will stop working? I didn't check that yet. Also there seem to be issues when gold is used together with -flto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5215d724.6050...@debian.org
