Hi, Quoting The Wanderer (2014-01-22 15:14:34) > Do things still work fine in Debian when using ld.gold (by installing the > binutils-gold package) rather than ld.bfd? I know there's an important > difference in ld.gold related to --as-needed (or possibly to - > --no-as-needed, I don't recall offhand).
I dont think the binutils-gold package exists anymore. binutils-gold seems to be provided by the binutils package which now seems to ship /usr/bin/ld.gold Do you happen to know an easy, undisruptive way to test with ld.gold? > I seem to recall that there are long-term plans to switch Debian over to > ld.gold or to produce the same effect in ld.bfd, and that it's recommended > (or at least preferred) to make sure your package builds with the gold > linker; I suspect that this is the "similar change... being discussed for > Debian" mentioned in the ToolchainTransition article you linked. > > There's no expected completion date for this AFAIK, but trying to be > compliant with it isn't a bad idea; I've already got the upstream of > something I haven't even packaged yet to accept a compliance patch, just > based on test packaging attempts. Thanks you for the information! cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140125102429.11514.34170@hoothoot
