> Binutils Gold: It was decided a long time ago not to build gold. I > brought it up on list when it was new (binutils-2.19), but I searched > and don't think it's been discussed much since then. It has grown up a > bit since that time. My only argument for this is that people might > want it, and we can provide it without affecting our build much (time > and disk space). As far as BLFS is concerned, the only real > beneficiary that I can think of might be QT. I'm sure there are a > couple of others, but that is the biggest C++ project that I'll use > (besides chromium which isn't in the book). There are plenty of other > places it could be used, but for now, just having available is enough.
Isn't this the same as compiling with CC="gcc -flto -fuse-linker-plugin.."? If so, maybe just this could be mentioned. Apart from qt, almost all packages would benefit since the code would be optimised and the compiled binaries/libs would almost all be smaller, no? Regards John -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
