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Re: [PATCH] --enable-gold=both
Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:
> When relying on a -B option it becomes difficult for e.g. configure
> scripts to get to the ld/gold version wanted, as it's installed in a
> separate path, which is not standardized. Passing an option gcc
> without a specific location would be preferred from my point of view.
Such an option would only work with new versions of gcc, and it will
be many years before you can reasonably assume that a new version is
out there. So it would not help in practice for configure scripts for
many years. At which point I expect that gold will have either
replaced GNU ld or will be dead, so the whole point will be moot.
Which isn't to say that you shouldn't write a patch for gcc to set the
name of the linker. It's just to say that I don't see that it will
help with this issue.
Ian