On 1/25/19 4:45 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > On 2019-01-25 16:42, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 1/24/19 2:04 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >>> But I'm leaning more towards just enabling gold on x86_64 -- for other >>> platforms, we might as well keep the good ol' bfd linker. Does that >>> sound like a good solution to you? >> I'd love it to be an option for AArch64. >> > I hear you. > > My current thinking is that I'm going to introduce a configure argument, > something like --with-toolchain-linker=gold, and if it is enabled, I'll > verify that gold is indeed present, and if it supports --threads. It > will be available on all gcc platforms. > > This will take some more time to write than my initial one-liner, so > I'll take this back to the drawing board for awhile.
Thank you. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671