Bug 393551

Summary:	sys-devel/binutils IUSE="gold" request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Wagner <carnildo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Mark Wagner 2011-12-07 21:13:38 UTC

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

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-12-07 23:37:49 UTC

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