On 2012-02-12 19:50, Michael Gilbert wrote: >>> I had binutils-gold packages installed and this was the reason that kernel >>> module failed to build on my machine. >> >> Could you please send us the build log?
I just tested: - The module builds fine with both ld.bfd and ld.gold. - The module produced by gold is a bit smaller, most probably due to removal of duplicate constants, e.g. strings. - The module built with gold has not shown any bad behavior during my tests. > We can just add a build-conflict to prevent people shooting themselves > in the foot with this. A Build-Conflicts won't help. A Conflicts would work, but will prevent people from using ld.gold for other things. A patch to explicitly use ld.bfd would be the solution (I needed this for NVIDIA which would not work at all if built with gold), but I don't think we need it. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
