On 8 January 2016 at 13:11, Prathamesh Kulkarni
<prathamesh.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having issues building GNU toolchain with LTO support.
> When I compile a "hello world" file with gcc,
> gcc -O2 -c hello.c -flto
> nm hello.o gives the following warning:
> plugin needed to handle lto object
> How do I work around this problem ?
> using -fuse-linker-plugin didn't help either.
>
> gcc -dumpspecs has following entries:
> %(linker) %{!fno-use-linker-plugin:%{!fno-lto: -plugin
> %(linker_plugin_file) -plugin-opt=%(lto_wrapper)
> -plugin-opt=-fresolution=%u.res
> %{!nostdlib:%{!nodefaultlibs:%:pass-through-libs(%(link_gcc_c_sequence))}}
> }}%{flto|flto=*:%<fcompare-debug*} %{flto} %{fno-lto}
> %{flto=*} %l %{no-pie:}
>
> I did the following to build toolchain:
> a) configured binutils-2.25 with --enable-gold --enable-lto
> --enable-plugins --prefix=$INSTALL
> b) configured gcc trunk with --with-plugin-ld=$INSTALL/bin/ld.bfd
> --prefix=$INSTALL --enable-languages=c,c++,lto
>
> I currently use the wrappers for nm/ar/ranlib mentioned in following
> link in Prerequisites section:
> http://hubicka.blogspot.in/2014/04/linktime-optimization-in-gcc-2-firefox.html
ping ?
Thanks,
Prathamesh
>
> Thanks,
> Prathamesh
