gold is not capable of building glibc/eglibc. See this thread:
http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-04/msg00010.html
Reported-by: Bill Pringlemeir <bpringle@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
The gold linker does currently support only a limited set of architectures:
- x86 (32- and 64-bit)
- ARM
Hide the gold option for other architectures.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Plugins are shared objects, and when building a toolchain statically,
the gcc build system breaks havok (although there is no hard technical
reasons it should not be possible)...
And consequently, do not enable plugin supoprt in binutils.
Reported-by: Thomas Spurden <thomas@ado.is-a-geek.net>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
When both gold and ld are installed, add a wrapper that calls
to either gold or ld.
In case the wrapper is installed, we also need to symlink ld.bfd
and ld.gold for the core_cc steps.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
When configured with support for threads, gold can link in
parallel, possibly cooperating with a make jobserver.
Add an option enabling threads.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
gold is a new, optimised, multi-threaded linker with support
for plugins.
Add support for gold starting with binutils 2.21. Although 2.20
also had gold, the configure flags have changed, and supporting
2.20 would be a mess in the code.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Add BINUTILS_2_21_or_later blind option. It will be used to add
conditional support for building 'gold' on versions that have it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
The companion libraries on the target are required only for internal use by
binutils and gdb. The user should not have to know about this, so hide the
option.
