Since I did this upgrade my builds have gotten very very slow. A single file change, recompile and relink used to be about 35 seconds. Now it's 2 and a half minutes. As far as I can tell I'm using the right gold.
davemo...@dmoorel:~/chrome/src$ ld --version GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20) 1.9 Are other people seeing this on linux? Dave On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Lei Zhang <thes...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We'll soon be relanding a patch that pass --gc-sections to the linker > on Linux. For this to work, you need either GNU ld or a recent version > of GNU gold. You can test and see if your copy of gold is new enough > by running: > > /path/to/gold --gc-sections > > If you see: "fatal error: no input files", _no action_ is required. > If you see: "--gc-sections: unknown option", then you _need to upgrade_. > > If you installed gold through [1], please run it again. I've updated > the script at r32315 to install gold 2.20. I've also updated all the > Linux build / try bots to gold 2.20. > > [1] http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/build/install-build-deps.sh > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
