I've removed this text from the wiki. I'm sure they fixed the problem I was referring to a long time ago.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM John Rigg <[email protected]> wrote: > The binutils package in Debian 10 works fine. I've built Non many > times using it with no problems. > > Gold is a linker originally developed by Google. It suffers > from bitrot since they stopped maintaining it. It's included in > the Debian binutils package as ld.gold, but the compiler uses > ld.bfd (old style ld) by default. If in doubt just make sure > /usr/bin/ld is a symlink to /usr/bin/ld.bfd and you shouldn't > have a problem. > > BTW, please use plain text, not HTML for email to mailing lists. > HTML is hard to read in a text-based mail client. > > John > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:53:40PM +0100, Aodh??n ?? Gadhra wrote: > > <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: > 12.0px;"><div>Can anyone explain what the following from the non website > means? -</div> > > > > <div> </div> > > > > <div>"Warning: the binutils-gold package included in recent > versions of Debian and Slackware, and perhaps other distributions has > critical bugs which make it unsuitable for use in building Non. Please > remove it."</div> > > > > <div> </div> > > > > <div>Which specific package is that? I can't find it on Debian 10. > Which bugs does it have and can it be removed > safely? </div></div></body></html> > > > > > > >
