Re: ld.gold is deprecated

[Andreas Fink via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment]

i used to use ld.gold because of a big issue occuring while building with the standard linker which resulted in unable to build stuff My pla was to use ldd and it failed too at the time. This wa during Debian8 times.  Under debian13 my builds failed because ld.gold is no longer there. However the standard linker shipped with Debian13 does not show this bug anymore so I changed back to it. I have not tried ldd since. It might have improved. supporting ldd and mold would be a great idea. Mold has a few nice attributes speeding up things but I never had much time to test if build using mold works properly.  On 12 Oct 2025, at 07:26, Ethan Charoenpitaks <echaroenpit...@imsa.edu> wrote:  Hello everyone, On 2025-02-02, Nick Clifton, the maintainer of GNU binutils, announced that ld.gold was deprecated starting in binutils 2.44: In a change to our previous practice, in this release the   binutils-2.44.tar tarball does not contain the sources for the gold   linker.  This is because the gold linker is now deprecated and will   eventually be removed unless volunteers step forward and offer to   continue development and maintenance. See also the Phoronix article. Currently most users who use GNUstep with Clang and libobjc2 on GNU/Linux use ld.gold, and so do packagers. Could we use LLD? There are some old notes lying around (gnustep-back packaging for FreeBSD, Wiki page "Building GNUstep under Debian FreeBSD" (I assume this is GNU/kFreeBSD)) that imply that LLD does not work properly with libobjc2. Meanwhile, our Windows and Android ports seem to use LLD, and Hugo Melder's installation guide recommends to use LLD. So it looks like LLD works properly with libobjc2; is this true? Could we use Mold? Mold is around 4 times faster than LLD, up to 18 times faster than ld.gold, and up to 31 times faster than ld.bfd. Thus, if we do need to make any linker changes in order to get a working non-gold linker, it would probably be a good idea to work on mold. Has anyone tried using GNUstep with Mold, and are there any issues that pop up? Thanks, Ethan Charoenpitaks