On 08.09.2011 15:27, Balcaen John wrote: > Le Jeudi 8 Septembre 2011 13:29:39 Thierry Vignaud a écrit : >> Hi >> In order to speed up KDE build which is said to link quite slowly, >> wouldn't it be time to try to build KDE with gold as linker? > I can try locally at least (if i can use less than 6 hours to build KDE > on BS it would be nice :p ) , however do we have a specific macro to > specify using ld.gold instead of ld (i never played with linker before) > ? > > Also from the mandriva thread [1]. maybe we can considere switching to > gold by default for all packages (with somes exceptions for kernel & > others packages).
I remember gold being a compromise which has better build speed but worse run-time performance. However, I haven't seen this mentioned recently, and as cooker has switched to it, I suspect I may misremember or this might have changed since. Can someone confirm that there is indeed no run-time downside to gold? > Another « solution » could be using alternatives for binutils so a > package can simply use gold linker by simply requering a binutils-gold > package like it's done in debian ? I don't like alternatives for any tools related to package building, as they cause package builds to differ depending on local configuration. > > [1] > http://mandriva.598463.n5.nabble.com/Cooker-Announcement-binutils- > changes-switching-to-gold-and-new-behaviour-td4636613.html -- Anssi Hannula