From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waldemar Brodkorb Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:40:08 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add support for ld.gold in toolchain. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140521054008.GC618@waldemar-brodkorb.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Steve, Steve Thomas wrote, > The ld.gold linker has been around for about six years, and is quite > well supported. It also used to be the only linker for gcc that > supported the plugin option needed for LTO. > > This patch enables a system to be build with the gold linker which is > very well supported on recent builds. But gold is not available for all architectures. I am sure it does not work for MIPS f.e. best regards Waldemar