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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?</H1>
    <B>Anssi Hannula</B> 
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<PRE>On 08.09.2011 15:27, Balcaen John wrote:
&gt;<i> Le Jeudi 8 Septembre 2011 13:29:39 Thierry Vignaud a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hi
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> In order to speed up KDE build which is said to link quite slowly,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> wouldn't it be time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?
</I>&gt;<i> I can try locally at least (if i can use less than 6 hours to build KDE 
</I>&gt;<i> on BS it would be nice :p ) , however do we have a specific macro to 
</I>&gt;<i> specify using ld.gold instead of ld  (i never played with linker before) 
</I>&gt;<i> ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Also from the mandriva thread  [1]. maybe we can considere switching to 
</I>&gt;<i> gold by default for all packages (with somes exceptions for kernel &amp; 
</I>&gt;<i> others packages).
</I>
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?

&gt;<i> Another &#171; solution &#187; could be using alternatives for binutils so a 
</I>&gt;<i> package can simply use gold linker by simply requering a binutils-gold 
</I>&gt;<i> package like it's done in debian ?
</I>
I don't like alternatives for any tools related to package building, as
they cause package builds to differ depending on local configuration.

&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> [1]
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mandriva.598463.n5.nabble.com/Cooker-Announcement-binutils-">http://mandriva.598463.n5.nabble.com/Cooker-Announcement-binutils-</A>
</I>&gt;<i> changes-switching-to-gold-and-new-behaviour-td4636613.html
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-- 
Anssi Hannula
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