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Re: forcing the linker to be a particular one (i.e. gold vs bfd)
- From: Marc Glisse <marc dot glisse at inria dot fr>
- To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:25:30 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: forcing the linker to be a particular one (i.e. gold vs bfd)
- References: <20101010200752.e21eb675.basile@starynkevitch.net>
- Reply-to: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
I am a mostly happy user of the GOLD binutils linker (thanks Ian!) and
it is the default /usr/bin/ld on my Debian/Testing system.
However, in some occasions, it could be useful to use another linker
(ie the plain BFD one).
[...]
Of course, one can always force ld to be a particular linker (i.e. the
BFD one on a system where the default is GOLD, or vice versa) with ugly
$PATH and symlink tricks. But that is ugly.
Wouldn't it be sensible to provide a gcc switch to force a particular
ld to be used? Something like CC='gcc -fforce-ld=/usr/bin/ld.bfd' ?
Or, if there is some other way (excluding dirty PATH manipuation),
document it better perhaps in
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html#Link-Options
On Debian (since this is the system you mention), you can just use:
gcc -B/usr/lib/compat-ld
gcc -B/usr/lib/gold-ld
to select the ld you want.
--
Marc Glisse