Gold
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gold is a new linker intended as a replacement for the ld.bfd linker.
The two installed linkers are available directly as ld.bfd and ld.gold respectively. Additionally, the default linker is also installed as ld - and this binary is used by compilers.
Installation
Gold can be enabled by setting the gold
USE flag for sys-devel/binutils. Additionally, setting default-gold
will make ld.gold the default linker.
FILE
/etc/portage/package.use/gold
# enable gold and set it as default sys-devel/binutils gold default-gold
After setting the USE flags, re-install binutils:
root #
emerge --ask --changed-use --deep --oneshot --verbose sys-devel/binutils