Re: PATCH: Support --enable-gold=both --with-linker=[bfd|gold]

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Roland McGrath <roland@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.
>

Plugin only works with gold. So I configured my gcc with

-with-plugin-ld=ld.gold

If both linkers have the same name, it will be harder to
use ld by default and use gold only for plugin.

-- 
H.J.