On Dec 13, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 13/12/2012 kl. 14.10 skrev David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org>: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> The easiest way of doing this is to make /usr/bin/ld (in the host system and >> in the bootstrap) into a symbolic link that points to whatever the selected >> linker is. I had to do this when testing gold as well (we end up with >> ld-gold and ld-bfd and ld being a symlink to one of them). > > Yes, a symlink is of course an easy solution post-install. But 'ld' is built > as part of 'make toolchain', I believe, so this approach wouldn't work if I > wanted mclinker to be used as the linker in 'make buildworld'. The newly > built 'ld' in /usr/obj/ would be used as the linker instead.
Install ld as ld.gnu during the build and after. Make ld a small shell script that invokes ld.gnu by default, or something else if a variable is set. Much like the way we have different mail backends to a common mail front end. Then ld does what people want, and you have a hook to do different things. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
