Joseph S. Myers writes:

> > Unfortunately, gold doesn't even build on non-Linux targets: see PR
> > gold/7024.
> 
> That actually appears to be a list of issues with non-Linux hosts, not 
> non-Linux targets.

Right, I had ignored non-native builds since I rarely do them.

> I would certainly hope both LTO and gold should work on a wide range of 
> non-Linux hosts (if anyone cares to contribute patches for such support), 
> including non-ELF hosts, even though restricted to ELF targets at least in 
> the case of gold.  libelf definitely works on MinGW and Solaris hosts.

I'll give it a try, although at least on Solaris and IRIX there is a
conflict with the native libelf.  I haven't yet checked if the interfaces
are the same, but I suppose not.

        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University

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