On 11/13/2021 9:33 AM, H.J. Lu via Gcc-patches wrote:
Sync with binutils for building binutils with LTO:
From 50ad1254d5030d0804cbf89c758359ae202e8d55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 06:43:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] GCC: Pass --plugin to AR and RANLIB
Detect GCC LTO plugin. Pass --plugin to AR and RANLIB to support LTO
build.
* Makefile.tpl (AR): Add @AR_PLUGIN_OPTION@
(RANLIB): Add @RANLIB_PLUGIN_OPTION@.
* configure.ac: Include config/gcc-plugin.m4.
AC_SUBST AR_PLUGIN_OPTION and RANLIB_PLUGIN_OPTION.
* libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE): Pass --plugin to AR and
RANLIB if possible.
* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* configure: Likewise.
config/
* gcc-plugin.m4 (GCC_PLUGIN_OPTION): New.
libiberty/
* Makefile.in (AR): Add @AR_PLUGIN_OPTION@
(RANLIB): Add @RANLIB_PLUGIN_OPTION@.
(configure_deps): Depend on ../config/gcc-plugin.m4.
* configure.ac: AC_SUBST AR_PLUGIN_OPTION and
RANLIB_PLUGIN_OPTION.
* aclocal.m4: Regenerated.
* configure: Likewise.
zlib/
* configure: Regenerated.
I thought the plugins were automatically loaded if they're in the right
place in the filesystem. Wouldn't that make this patch unnecessary? Am
I missing something?
jeff
