Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [meta-browser] Chromium and gold linker

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:35:26PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 17:09 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 02:00:35PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > On 7/10/17 1:47 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:36:42PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Khem, et al,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I couldn't find below patch being discussed on this mailing
> > > > > list before it got 
> > > > > merged:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/commit/62e323848f569c
> > > > > 4cdea5567b1917ce006d7705af
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/commit/55a74501bc65c90c
> > > > 86e3236b51ec2dc2fc0145fb
> > > > 
> > > > "ld-is-gold just means that my default linker is gold, however we
> > > > build
> > > > both linkers, so one should be able to enable gold just for
> > > > linking
> > > > chromium even if default ld is bfd linker."
> > > > 
> > > > I strongly disagree with such interpretation - this would mean
> > > > there's NO way 
> > > > to disable gold linker completely, e.g. for when external
> > > > toolchain doesn't 
> > > > support it.
> > 
> > Copying OE architecture list for further discussion of "ld-is-gold"
> > meaning.
> 
> The attribution above is a bit confusing so I'm not quite sure who
> wrote what.  But it is certainly true that "ld-is-gold" in
> DISTRO_FEATURES means, and always has meant, simply that gold is to be
> installed as the default linker.  In other words, if you invoke plain
> "ld", you will get gold, and if you need the BFD linker - usually
> because you are using linker scripts that gold doesn't understand -
> then you must invoke ld.bfd.  See
> 207a9013670560d62c793a66f01e19f4760a71a8 from some six years ago for
> the place that it was originally added.
> 
> As far as I know, we do not have (and never have had) any
> DISTRO_FEATURE that will inhibit gold from being installed altogether,

It is not about being installed, but about being supported by the toolchain 
in use - think of external toolchains not built by OE-Core... The original 
question was whether it's appropriate to force gold linker in recipes, if 
ld-is-gold is not set by the distro.


> nor can I immediately think of a reason why this would be generally
> useful.  Obviously, any DISTRO that wants to do this is welcome to
> provide a bbappend for binutils.
> 
> p.
>