[Mageia-dev] time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?

Fri Sep 9 01:59:36 CEST 2011

On 08.09.2011 15:27, Balcaen John wrote:
+> Le Jeudi 8 Septembre 2011 13:29:39 Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>> Hi
+>> In order to speed up KDE build which is said to link quite slowly,
+>> wouldn't it be time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?
+> I can try locally at least (if i can use less than 6 hours to build KDE 
+> on BS it would be nice :p ) , however do we have a specific macro to 
+> specify using ld.gold instead of ld  (i never played with linker before) 
+> ?
+> 
+> Also from the mandriva thread  [1]. maybe we can considere switching to 
+> gold by default for all packages (with somes exceptions for kernel & 
+> others packages).
+
+I remember gold being a compromise which has better build speed but
+worse run-time performance. However, I haven't seen this mentioned
+recently, and as cooker has switched to it, I suspect I may misremember
+or this might have changed since.
+
+Can someone confirm that there is indeed no run-time downside to gold?
+
+> Another « solution » could be using alternatives for binutils so a 
+> package can simply use gold linker by simply requering a binutils-gold 
+> package like it's done in debian ?
+
+I don't like alternatives for any tools related to package building, as
+they cause package builds to differ depending on local configuration.
+
+> 
+> [1]
+> http://mandriva.598463.n5.nabble.com/Cooker-Announcement-binutils-
+> changes-switching-to-gold-and-new-behaviour-td4636613.html
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+