----- "Roland McGrath" <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nice hack, Michal! As you are aware, I have been slowly preparing > things > to get towards the option of using gold for real in the future. > Making > this sort of testing easy is about the next thing I thought someone > should > do (and wasn't going to hack on myself!), so it's a thrill to see > you've > taken the initiative. > > I believe that upstream gold has changed a fair bit since the > binutils > snapshot we have in Fedora. Before paying much attention to actual > testing > results, I would recommend working with nickc to get a fresher > binutils > based on current upstream into rawhide (it's too late to be mucking > with > F-13 tools now). Actually what I do, Roland, it that I grab binutils daily tarball and rebuild it as Source0 of Rawhide's SRPM (really ugly...) so I always use the latest one, see '-r' option. Drawback in the script is that it always rebuilds binutils even if you have today's binutils RPMs somewhere, that's just a detail a the moment, I guess. > I had not been planning to announce or recommend anyone play with > gold > until that was done. As your wiki page mentions, for playing locally > by > hand you can already (as of F-13) use: > alternatives --set /usr/bin/ld /usr/bin/ld.gold > to try some compilations. My observation is that 80-90 % of packages can be built however I doubt all of resulting binaries work. Most notably kernel fails to build. > Even with the latest gold, there are still some known limitations. > So nobody should be expecting perfection. But it is useful to > collect > the cases that fail in ways that are not already known gold bugs. I just set x86_64 machine up and will try to rebuild whole F-13 package set. Will report results back (someday :). > > Thanks, > Roland Michal > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
