After updating binutils to version 2.20.51.0.8 ld.gold is not installed anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =sys-devel/binutils-2.20.51.0.8 2. run ld.gold -v Actual Results: $SHELL: command not found: ld.gold Expected Results: GNU gold (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.0.8.20100412 The configure flag was renamed from "--enable-gold=both/bfd" to "--enable-gold=both/ld" so that it is not found by grep -q 'enable-gold=both/bfd' "${S}"/configure at line 199 of toolchain-binutils.eclass.
thanks ... should be fixed now http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass?r1=1.90&r2=1.91