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Bug 908966 - Enable gold linker for ARM architecture
Summary: Enable gold linker for ARM architecture
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: binutils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nick Clifton
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARMTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-07 22:19 UTC by William Cohen
Modified: 2013-03-06 16:13 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-03-06 16:13:39 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description William Cohen 2013-02-07 22:19:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

Gold linker in binutils is currently only built for x86 platforms.  Would it be possible to enable building the gold linker for arm?  Some people might like the faster linker.

With a simple test build it appeared that gold linker is buildable in 
binutils-2.23.51.0.1-6.fc18.
Comment 1 William Cohen 2013-03-05 16:59:02 UTC 
Just need the following change in the binutils.spec to enable it.


$ diff -u binutils.spec.x binutils.spec
--- binutils.spec.x	2013-03-05 11:55:01.389026867 -0500
+++ binutils.spec	2013-03-05 11:55:17.944308415 -0500
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 Provides: bundled(libiberty)
 
-%define gold_arches %ix86 x86_64
+%define gold_arches %ix86 x86_64 %arm
 
 %ifarch %gold_arches
 %define build_gold	both
Comment 2 William Cohen 2013-03-05 20:57:51 UTC 
binutils appears to build without problem as a fedora 19 scratch build with gold enabled:

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1536253
Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2013-03-06 16:13:39 UTC 
binutils-2.23.52.0.1-4.fc19 now contains this patch.
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