On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:39:37 -0700 Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it as simple as switching the linker and re-merging packages that > one maintains? Is gold supposed to be a big deal? Does it do the job > of linking better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's > explaining what gold does better than standard ld. I think gold is faster and doesnt eat 8+gb of ram when linking chromium with debug symbols :) > That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND > updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me. Nah, it's adding proper -lfoo when foo is used; more like asneeded fixes.
