[Kde-pim] Using gold linker as default

[Ryan Rix]

On Thu 24 June 2010 4:15:35 am Tobias Koenig wrote:
>    The gold linker is more restrictive when it comes to linking. You have
> to give the libraries you have to link to explicitly. This is a great help
> for the MacOSX (and Windows?) developers, since that's the default
> behaviour for the linkers on these systems, so they don't have to fix our
> CMakeLists.txt over and over again. IIRC also packagers like the explicit
> way of defining the libraries (can't remember why though).

And it makes Fedora users who are stuck with gnu ld that behaves like gold ;) 
I believe we are currently running ld with --no-copy-dt-needed-entries, to 
prepare our packagers for the switch to gold in Fedora 14...

Ryan

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