(at least) sys-devel/binutils-2.20.51.0.5 with USE=+gold breaks: app-emulation/wine (tested with 1.1.36 and 1.1.37) and net-fs/samba (tested with 3.3.10) with USE=-gold wine works OK, with USE=+gold wine and samba gives "Segmentation fault" 1. I tested it only on amd64. 2. older binutils (2.20.51.0.4) didn't do this.
From USE flag description: gold:sys-devel/binutils: Use the new gold linker (written in C++) rather than the standard linker (this _will_ break things) Also, please, don't CC individual maintainers.
btw, it cause other applications to crash too. See bug 301176 as another example.
> gold:sys-devel/binutils: Use the new gold linker (written in C++) rather than > the standard linker (this _will_ break things) So: not to use it? > Also, please, don't CC individual maintainers. Sorry. I will not.
wine/samba are huge packages and gold is a ways away from even being "unstable". per Bug 301480, USE=gold no longer exists and gold can no longer be the default `ld`. people have to manually use `ld.gold`.