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RFA/RFC: Enable both gold and ld in a single toolchain

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 16:48:00 GMT 2010 
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:37 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>>  Now that the GCC mainline sources are back in stage 1, and I am back from
>> vacation, here is another revised version of the gold-and-ld patch for
>> consideration, and I hope, approval.
>>
>>  This version fixes collect2.c so that it will build even if the
>> DEFAULT_LINKER environment variable is defined.  It also changes the name of
>> the installed version of the gold linker to be ld.gold in order to use a
>> consistent naming scheme.
>>
>>  OK to apply ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>  Nick
>>
>> ./ChangeLog
>> 2010-04-09  Roland McGrath  <roland@redhat.com>
>>        H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
>>
>>    * configure.ac (--enable-gold): Support both, both/gold and
>>    both/bfd to add gold to configdirs without removing ld.
>>    * configure: Regenerated.
>
> You didn't mention toplevel Makefile.in change. You
> should change Makefile.def and regenerate Makefile.in
> instead.

Something like

diff --git a/Makefile.def b/Makefile.def
index 7dce699..325d845 100644
--- a/Makefile.def
+++ b/Makefile.def
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ dependencies = { module=all-ld; on=all-build-bison; };
 dependencies = { module=all-ld; on=all-build-byacc; };
 dependencies = { module=all-ld; on=all-build-flex; };
 dependencies = { module=all-ld; on=all-intl; };
+dependencies = { module=install-ld; on=install-gold; };
 dependencies = { module=configure-gold; on=configure-intl; };
 dependencies = { module=all-gold; on=all-libiberty; };
 dependencies = { module=all-gold; on=all-intl; };


-- 
H.J.
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