266282 – add gold USE flag to toolchain-binutils eclass

Bug 266282 - add gold USE flag to toolchain-binutils eclass

Summary: add gold USE flag to toolchain-binutils eclass

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers

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Reported:	2009-04-15 17:25 UTC by Dror Levin (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-08-07 23:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-15 17:25:47 UTC

Please add a gold USE flag to enable the experimental gold linker and allow it to be tested more easily.
All that's needed is to add --enable-gold to $myconf in toolchain-binutils_src_compile().
Since it's experimental it would be a good idea to add a note saying it's unsupported, and it should also be disabled by default (i.e. IUSE="-gold").

BTW, other distributions offer gold (e.g. debian offers binutils-gold in experimental), so it's not unheard of :)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-04-18 17:32:43 UTC

in the mean time, you can use EXTRA_ECONF

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-05-09 20:57:58 UTC

added to the binutils eclass

Comment 3 Hugo Mildenberger 2009-12-10 18:18:27 UTC

As of binutils-2.20.51.3, gold is still filtered.

Comment 4 Anonymous 2010-08-05 16:36:53 UTC

toolchain-binutils.eclass needs to be changed to search in configure script not "enable-gold=both/ld" and "enable-gold=both/bfd", but just "enable-gold"

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-08-07 23:03:30 UTC

new issue -> new bug