FS#15450 - Can we get the gold linker?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 21:30 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 09 July 2009, 00:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Gold is an alternative to ld, rewritten in C++ for performance, that shows vast
performance improvements over ld:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-03/msg00162.html

Unfortunately, it is part of the binutils. Rebuilding the binutils seems a bit
perilous for a mere mortal like me, so it would be nice if gold was compiled
and available by default in Arch.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 09 July 2009, 00:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  The AUR would be a good pace for this...
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 23:26 GMT
Hi, this was reported some time ago here:  FS#12230 
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 23:59 GMT
My opinions have not changed on this. I believe GOLD is not ready for the prime time yet, so until the binutils devs provide a way to build both and then be able pick which one is to be used (environmental variable?), this is not going to happen.

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