On 7 June 2011 15:19, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7 June 2011 14:53, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Oh ... or does all that configury only affect whether >>> -fuse-linker-plugin is enabled by default, and I can make it work with >>> gold by using -fuse-linker-plugin on the command line when I use >>> -flto? >> >> Yes, that is the only effect of the configure test, and, yes, it should >> work to use -fuse-linker-plugin by hand. > > I tried that and got an error from gold saying -plugin was an unknown > option, so somehow my binutils build disabled plugins for gold but not > bfd. I was misled by the fact my ld.bfd supports (or claims to support) plugins and assumed --enable-plugins was the default, but it's not. After adding --enable-plugins I get a plugin-enabled ld and ld.gold as well as a plugin-enabled ld.bfd. Now to rebuild gcc to use it. Thanks for your help, Ian.
