Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> writes: >> I'm still not entirely convinced that this is the way to go. It seems >> to me that ideally one wants to be able to select the linker at >> runtime. I don't see how this patch supports that. What am I >> missing? > > It covers the first step by letting you run "ld.bfd" or "ld.gold" to > choose. Having the two binaries installed by those names is a good start > and seems likely to be part of how any fancier plan would work, so why not > start there?
Mainly because an alternative is to install them in subdirectories with the name ld. Then gcc can run them directly using a -B option. I don't know which approach is best. Ian
