On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, David Moore <davemo...@google.com> wrote:
> Since I did this upgrade my builds have gotten very very slow. A single > file change, recompile and relink used to be about 35 seconds. Now it's 2 > and a half minutes. As far as I can tell I'm using the right gold. > > davemo...@dmoorel:~/chrome/src$ ld --version > GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20) 1.9 > > Are other people seeing this on linux? > > Dave > Make sure you compile gold with -O2. That made a huge difference for me when I was playing with it, and that wasn't the default for some reason. Antoine > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Lei Zhang <thes...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> We'll soon be relanding a patch that pass --gc-sections to the linker >> on Linux. For this to work, you need either GNU ld or a recent version >> of GNU gold. You can test and see if your copy of gold is new enough >> by running: >> >> /path/to/gold --gc-sections >> >> If you see: "fatal error: no input files", _no action_ is required. >> If you see: "--gc-sections: unknown option", then you _need to upgrade_. >> >> If you installed gold through [1], please run it again. I've updated >> the script at r32315 to install gold 2.20. I've also updated all the >> Linux build / try bots to gold 2.20. >> >> [1] http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/build/install-build-deps.sh >> >> -- >> Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com >> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: >> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev >> > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
