There's one issue with older versions of gold that for shared objects it doesn't handle weak symbols correctly: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16979
This isn't a problem for static linking, but for dynamic linking causes problems like not seeing tcmalloc's version of malloc. Not a blocker (I use gold almost all the time on my laptop by putting a symlink on my path as 'ld') but something to be aware of. -Todd On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I think clang doesn't have a CLI option to use gold. Does buildall.sh -asan > interact well with gold? > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Tim Armstrong <tarmstr...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > > The gold linker is much faster for building static binaries so will be > much > > friendlier for new developers. > > > > I don't think I've seen a problem attributable to gold since it was > added ~ > > 6 months ago. I've been using it since then and we've been using it for > > some Impala test jobs as well for at least a couple of months. I feel > > confident that any major problems have been shaken out. > > > > Does anyone have any objections? > > > > - Tim > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
