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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel.bbclass, module-base.bbclass: Use CC to form KERNEL_CC
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On 1/22/13 7:41 AM, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Khem Raj <raj.khem-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> +KERNEL_LD = "${LD} ${HOST_LD_KERNEL_ARCH}"
>> ...
>> -KERNEL_LD = "${HOST_PREFIX}ld${KERNEL_LDSUFFIX} ${HOST_LD_KERNEL_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
>
> that's bad... gold linker has serious problems to compile stuff like
> kernel or bootloaders and setting 'KERNEL_LDSUFFIX = .bfd' was a good
> way to workaround these problems.
>

This was not the intended use of KERNEL_LD IMO.
There are is than kernel that does not go well when using gold, I think 
the right approach would be to check ld-is-gold being present in 
DISTRO_FEATURES and appending '.bfd' to LD variable like other recipes do

>
>
> Enrico
>