Re: [chromium-dev] Linux: gold linker users should upgrade to 2.20 soon.

2009-11-23 Thread Lei Zhang
If you are just testing the Google Chrome build and you don't need symbols, you can always comment out the -gstabs line in build/common.gypi. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:10 PM, David Moore davemo...@google.com wrote: Problem solved. Coincident with using the new linker I started building the

Re: [chromium-dev] Linux: gold linker users should upgrade to 2.20 soon.

2009-11-21 Thread David Moore
Since I did this upgrade my builds have gotten very very slow. A single file change, recompile and relink used to be about 35 seconds. Now it's 2 and a half minutes. As far as I can tell I'm using the right gold. davemo...@dmoorel:~/chrome/src$ ld --version GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20) 1.9 Are

Re: [chromium-dev] Linux: gold linker users should upgrade to 2.20 soon.

2009-11-21 Thread Antoine Labour
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, David Moore davemo...@google.com wrote: Since I did this upgrade my builds have gotten very very slow. A single file change, recompile and relink used to be about 35 seconds. Now it's 2 and a half minutes. As far as I can tell I'm using the right gold.

Re: [chromium-dev] Linux: gold linker users should upgrade to 2.20 soon.

2009-11-21 Thread David Moore
I checked and I compiled with -O2. I see a similar slowdown in the ar calls. I also notice that the size of the chrome executable is now 2GB. I think before the size was closer to 350MB. It was 750MB if you included webkit symbols. Perhaps something changed about the way we're managing symbols.