Bug 908966

Summary:	Enable gold linker for ARM architecture
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	William Cohen <wcohen>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jakub, nickc, pbrobinson
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Description William Cohen 2013-02-07 22:19:49 UTC

Description of problem:

Gold linker in binutils is currently only built for x86 platforms.  Would it be possible to enable building the gold linker for arm?  Some people might like the faster linker.

With a simple test build it appeared that gold linker is buildable in 
binutils-2.23.51.0.1-6.fc18.

Comment 1 William Cohen 2013-03-05 16:59:02 UTC

Just need the following change in the binutils.spec to enable it.


$ diff -u binutils.spec.x binutils.spec
--- binutils.spec.x	2013-03-05 11:55:01.389026867 -0500
+++ binutils.spec	2013-03-05 11:55:17.944308415 -0500
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 Provides: bundled(libiberty)
 
-%define gold_arches %ix86 x86_64
+%define gold_arches %ix86 x86_64 %arm
 
 %ifarch %gold_arches
 %define build_gold	both

Comment 2 William Cohen 2013-03-05 20:57:51 UTC

binutils appears to build without problem as a fedora 19 scratch build with gold enabled:

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1536253

Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2013-03-06 16:13:39 UTC

binutils-2.23.52.0.1-4.fc19 now contains this patch.