Bug 1537024 - Build gold linker for cross binutils for supported architectures
Summary: Build gold linker for cross binutils for supported architectures
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cross-binutils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: David Howells
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-22 09:56 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2020-10-05 08:17 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Robinson 2018-01-22 09:56:15 UTC
We currently build the gold linker for all the supported architectures:

%define gold_arches %ix86 x86_64 %arm aarch64 %{power64} s390x

It would be useful to be able to, if possible, use the gold linker for those architectures in the cross build stack too

Comment 1 David Howells 2018-02-16 16:14:20 UTC
Ummm...  What does it gain us?

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2018-02-16 16:45:14 UTC
For some projects the resulting binaries are smaller and faster.

We also ship it enabled in the primary binutils so it would give us the same functionality as there.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2018-02-20 15:29:43 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 22:04:52 UTC
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