On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:35:26PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 17:09 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 02:00:35PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On 7/10/17 1:47 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:36:42PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko > > > > wrote: > > > > > Khem, et al, > > > > > > > > > > I couldn't find below patch being discussed on this mailing > > > > > list before it got > > > > > merged: > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/commit/62e323848f569c > > > > > 4cdea5567b1917ce006d7705af > > > > > > > > https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/commit/55a74501bc65c90c > > > > 86e3236b51ec2dc2fc0145fb > > > > > > > > "ld-is-gold just means that my default linker is gold, however we > > > > build > > > > both linkers, so one should be able to enable gold just for > > > > linking > > > > chromium even if default ld is bfd linker." > > > > > > > > I strongly disagree with such interpretation - this would mean > > > > there's NO way > > > > to disable gold linker completely, e.g. for when external > > > > toolchain doesn't > > > > support it. > > > > Copying OE architecture list for further discussion of "ld-is-gold" > > meaning. > > The attribution above is a bit confusing so I'm not quite sure who > wrote what. But it is certainly true that "ld-is-gold" in > DISTRO_FEATURES means, and always has meant, simply that gold is to be > installed as the default linker. In other words, if you invoke plain > "ld", you will get gold, and if you need the BFD linker - usually > because you are using linker scripts that gold doesn't understand - > then you must invoke ld.bfd. See > 207a9013670560d62c793a66f01e19f4760a71a8 from some six years ago for > the place that it was originally added. > > As far as I know, we do not have (and never have had) any > DISTRO_FEATURE that will inhibit gold from being installed altogether,
It is not about being installed, but about being supported by the toolchain in use - think of external toolchains not built by OE-Core... The original question was whether it's appropriate to force gold linker in recipes, if ld-is-gold is not set by the distro. > nor can I immediately think of a reason why this would be generally > useful. Obviously, any DISTRO that wants to do this is welcome to > provide a bbappend for binutils. > > p. > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
