Bug 163135

Summary:	<sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.9 - very slow linking object files containing dwarf2 symbols
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Purtill <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111
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Description Mark Purtill 2007-01-21 21:41:54 UTC

There's a bug in binutils that causes ld to link very slowly with lots of object files compiled with -g.  (In my case, it takes a link that should take under a minute almost 10 minutes, which makes development rather unpleasant.)  The bug occurs in binutils-2.16.1-r3 and binutils-2.17, and is fixed by binutils-2.17.50.0.9.  The bug is reported upstream at <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111>.

Any chance the fix could be back-ported to binutils-2.16 or even binutils-2.17?  

Note: the bug is not present in binutils-2.15, but because glibc-2.4 requires binutils-2.16, it was not possible for me to downgrade.  However, portage let me downgrade, but then gcc couldn't link anything.  (If you find yourself in that position, you can temporarily edit /usr/src/lib.so, removing "AS_NEEDED ( /lib/ld-linux.so.2 )", to allow re-emerging binutils-2.16.)

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-21 22:39:44 UTC

*** Bug 163139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-01-28 05:19:54 UTC

i dont really see any self contained changes that translate to 2.17 let alone to 2.16

feel free to re-open with a patch to prove me wrong though