[Bug lto/41376] collect2 does not handle static libraries

[bmei at broadcom dot com]

------- Comment #6 from bmei at broadcom dot com  2010-05-04 16:54 -------
> So this is a rough first draft of the-kind-of-thing-i-was-thinking-of.  We get
> collect2 to run a dummy link early, and extract the output from the
> --lto-assist flag to get a list of archive members that we need lto to
> recompile for us.
> 

Well I spent some time to read into collect2/lto code and understand pro/cons
of different approaches. So far, adding --lto-assist to ld/hacking collect2
approach looks reasonable to me, though it does require gnu ld. What extra info
should be in a complete symbol resolution file?


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41376