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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:26:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818122621.09b4c246@portable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <943d47b7-f01a-480a-3bb6-c9ccf14f6cf9@gentoo.org>

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:39:37 -0700
Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Is it as simple as switching the linker and re-merging packages that
> one maintains? Is gold supposed to be a big deal? Does it do the job
> of linking better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's
> explaining what gold does better than standard ld.

I think gold is faster and doesnt eat 8+gb of ram when linking chromium
with debug symbols :)

> That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND
> updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me.

Nah, it's adding proper -lfoo when foo is used; more like asneeded
fixes.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-18 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-17 20:37 [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues! Michał Górny
2016-08-17 21:02 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-08-18  5:39 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-18 10:26   ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2016-08-18 12:12   ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-18 10:43 ` Andrew Savchenko
2016-08-18 11:47   ` Lars Wendler
2016-08-18 12:13     ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-18 13:21       ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-18 21:20         ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-18 21:56           ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-18 23:49             ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-08-19  4:58         ` Michał Górny
2016-08-19  7:49           ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-19 15:18             ` james
2016-08-19 12:46           ` Alexis Ballier

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