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

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> 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 really don't like "-Luse-gold"/"-Luse-ld". It is asking for trouble. What if
I have a library called `libuse-gold.so"? Why can't we add a real new
option? Also gold may be installed as `ld'.  How about -muse-gold/use-gld
or -muse-ld.gold/-muse-ld.bfd?


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H.J.