Jon Grant <j...@jguk.org> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote, On 03/07/11 05:27: >> Jon Grant<j...@jguk.org> writes: > [.] >>> Another reply for this old thread. I wondered, if collect2 is >>> possibly not needed in normal use on GNU/Linux, could GCC be >>> configured to call ld directly in those cases to save launching >>> another binary. >> >> collect2 is needed if you use -frepo or -flto. > > Hi Ian. > > Not sure how easy this is, but could those options simply be checked > to determine if the linker could be called directly? Would save > launching collect2 then, to speed up builds a bit!
Sure, that seems feasible. Want to try to tackle it? Ian
