[Mageia-dev] time to try to build KDE with gold as linker?
Anssi Hannula
anssi.hannula at iki.fi
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
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Anssi Hannula
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