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Subject: Re: binutils fails to set ld.gold as default
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It is enabled. As I said earlier, ld.gold gets created, it's just that 
ld is not pointing to it even though the flag says 
--enable-gold=default. It still point to the regular cross ld. Another 
config option that creates ld.gold is --enable-ld=yes, so at this point 
default looks exactly like yes.
Just to be extra sure, I did try to add the extra space as you suggested 
but the behaviour is the same.

Thanks,
Florin

On 09/21/2012 04:58 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 16:32 +0300, Florin Sarbu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am facing an issue trying to use ld.gold as the default ld on a poky
>> build. I've added to my build's conf/local.conf DISTRO_FEATURES_append =
>> "ld-is-gold" so I get in
>> tmp-eglibc-eglibc/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi
>> the following (amongst others):
>>
>> arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld
>> arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd
>> arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.gold
>>
>> All good so far. But looking into
>> tmp-eglibc-eglibc/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/armv7a-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-oe-linux-gnueabi/4.7.2
>> I see:
>>
>> ld ->
>> ../../../../../bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld
>>
>>   From the binutils.inc recipe, in EXTRA_OECONF:
>> ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--enable-gold=default
>> --enable-threads', '', d)}
>> Shouldn't that have made ld point to ld.gold?
>>
>> Any thoughts/ideas on why this is happening?
> Its probably not enabled. Try:
>
> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " ld-is-gold"
>
> note the extra space.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>