[Bug gold/10938] New: There should be a way for ld and gold to coexist

[bero at arklinux dot org]

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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