On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> wrote: > Hi, > > [sorry for breaking the threading I've deleted the mails I'm answering > already] > > In any case, citing from > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01250.html > >> Here's the patch I came up with. It is on top of the previous one, so >> if we want to backport to 4.6 later, both are necessary. >> >> It also fixes a typo in the in_tree_ld case, which can never have >> worked. >> >> Tested by i386-pc-solaris2.11 bootstraps with either Sun ld or gld 2.21, >> and by configuring with Sun ld --with-plugin-ld=gld-2.21 and obvserving >> HAVE_LTO_PLUGIN being set to 1. > ... >> @@ -3207,6 +3207,10 @@ >> elif test "$ld_is_gold" = yes -a "$ld_vers_major" -eq 2 -a >> "$ld_vers_minor" -eq 20; then >> gcc_cv_lto_plugin=1 >> fi >> + elif test x"$ORIGINAL_PLUGIN_LD_FOR_TARGET" != x"$gcc_cv_ld"; then >> + # Allow -fuse-linker-plugin if plugin linker differs from >> + # default/specified linker. >> + gcc_cv_lto_plugin=1 >> fi >> fi > > And this '1' is a problem. Even if I specify > --with-plugin-ld=some-good-ld (i.e. it can be reasonably assumed that I > know what I'm doing) the above forces me to still have to use > -fuse-linker-plugin when I really want to use it. This is because the > introduction of three levels of HAVE_LTO_PLUGIN: 0 (-fuse-linker-plugin > not allowed), 1 (allowed but not default for -flto), 2 (allowed and > default to on with -flto). > > I think if the plugin linker is different from the normal linker we should > set HAVE_LTO_PLUGIN to 2.
I think we should do the linker version checks which relate to linker-plugin use on the plugin-linker instead. So if I specify a separate but known buggy linker I don't want it to be used by default. Richard. > > Ciao, > Michael. >