The "gold" linker in the binutils package is still in beta and is resource-intensive to compile (it appears to require at least 256MB of free memory; my computer is on its third day of compiling). For people installing Gentoo on low-end systems who have no intention of using it, it would be useful to expose the "--enable-gold" configure option as a USE-flag so they can keep it from being built. Reproducible: Always
sorry, but i think the user base for this would be low you should be able to do: mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/sys-devel/ echo "EXTRA_ECONF+=' --disable-gold'" >> /etc/portage/env/sys-devel/binutils
