On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 02:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and > predictible ways. H.J. stated: > > "Since building a workable kernel for different kernel configurations > isn't a requirement for gold, I don't recommend gold for kernel." > > So instead of dealing with attempts to duct tape gold support without > understanding the root cause, fail the build when gold is detected. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Right, life is too short to fight toolchains that aren't interested in working. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> > --- > scripts/Kconfig.include | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > --- a/scripts/Kconfig.include > +++ b/scripts/Kconfig.include > @@ -35,5 +35,8 @@ ld-option = $(success,$(LD) -v $(1)) > $(error-if,$(failure,command -v $(CC)),compiler '$(CC)' not found) > $(error-if,$(failure,command -v $(LD)),linker '$(LD)' not found) > > +# Fail if the linker is gold as it's not capable of linking the kernel proper > +$(error-if,$(success, command -v $(LD) -v | grep -q gold), gold linker > '$(LD)' not supported) > + > # gcc version including patch level > gcc-version := $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC))
