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

[Christophe Lyon]

On 25.01.2012 16:14, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Christophe Lyon<christophe.lyon@st.com>  wrote:
>> On 25.01.2012 15:49, Richard Guenther wrote:
>>>
>>> You can change the linker used by adjusting your path or giving an
>>> appropriate -B option to the gcc driver.
>>>
>>> Richard.
>>>
>> Yes, but part of the thread was precisely to discuss alternatives, more
>> end-user friendly (for those won't know the full path to alternate linker).
> Would they know that two different linkers exist, or even what a linker is?
>
> Richard.
>

Yes they do, but as Matthias Klose said, it would help distribution makers (see http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-01/msg00191.html)

Maybe Matthias remembers which problems he found with his patch and LTO?

Thanks
Christophe.