RFA/RFC: Enable both gold and ld in a single toolchain

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.03.2010 10:28, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Thanks very much for the feedback on my original patch. Attached below
> is a revised version in which I have tried to take into account all of
> the suggestions that were made.
>
> H.J. - I apologise for forgetting that you had already submitted a patch
> that does basically the same thing as my patch. I have adopted most of
> the ideas from your patch into this revised version, but with a few
> changes:
>
> * I named the BFD based linker "gld" rather than "ld.bfd". I thought
> that this was more intuitive, and it also matches how the linker is
> referred in various bits of documentation.

please don't. the gld name is already used in the binary namespace (although 
it's in /usr/sbin).
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=gld&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any

Not sure how many distributions already did use H.J's patch, but at least Debian 
and Ubuntu will keep these names from this patch for the next release.

   Matthias