The gold linker and KDE

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Mon Apr 14 10:27:58 CEST 2008


On Monday 14 April 2008, Michael Druing wrote:
> Please keep in mind that gold is ELF-only, so it cannot be used to link on
> Win32.
>
> Thus, linking KDE with gold must stay an option and shouldn't become the
> default (at least until other binary formats are implemented in gold)

I believe that linux distributions will switch to the gold linker or provide 
it optionally and those problems in underlying packages will be fixed then 
over time. 

Greetings,
Dirk



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