Talk:Gold

Installing gold
In the article, there's a discussion on how to build gold with EXTRA_ECONF. But it seems gold is built by default anyway, without any extra work required, and it has been for a while...

$ ld.gold --version GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.22) 1.11 Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ... — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alec (talk • contribs)


 * Answering myself:  is to set ld.gold as the ld by default. Alec (talk) 23:12, 8 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Glad you updated this discussion with the answer. Thanks for the good work; I will close the discussion now. Kind regards, --Maffblaster (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I note there's now a "default-gold" use flag for binutils that does the same as the env file, but with much less hassle. The article doesn't actually discuss whether switching to gold is a Good Thing. User:goverp Fri 7 Jun 20:18:40 BST 2019

Recent kernels seem to block the gold linker. Is gold even maintained any more?

Gatak (talk) 13:52, 1 December 2019 (UTC)