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Re: [build, lto] Only accept -fuse-linker-plugin if linker supports -plugin (PR lto/46944)
Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think if the plugin linker is different from the normal linker we should
>> set HAVE_LTO_PLUGIN to 2.
>
> I think we should do the linker version checks which relate to linker-plugin
> use on the plugin-linker instead. So if I specify a separate but known
I'll see if this is reasonably doable...
> buggy linker I don't want it to be used by default.
... but how about a different route for 4.7? I've never really
understood the point of --with-plugin-ld. Given that we have known-good
linkers, why not simply remove that wart?
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University