forcing the linker to be a particular one (i.e. gold vs bfd)

[Matthias Klose]

On 10.10.2010 22:02, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Basile Starynkevitch<basile@starynkevitch.net>  writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> You mentioned you use Debian; their gcc-4.4 4.4.3-4 and later
> have a "gold-and-ld" patch to support gcc -fuse-ld=bfd and
> -fuse-ld=gold.  This patch is not in the FSF's GCC 4.4.5,
> 4.5.1, nor trunk.

sorry to say so, but that's a bad story.  this is a patch which is in current 
binutils trunk, submitted for review for gcc trunk,  finally got reviewed by 
Mark Mitchell after some months, but didn't get any feedback from the original 
submitter. With binutils 2.21 getting close to release, we'll have a mismatch 
with gcc and binutils.  any idea how to make some progress?

   Matthias