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>
sstrip is causing more trouble and grief than tolerable.
It is broken at least on PPC. It does not build on non-ELF
systems (eg. mingw32, MacOS-X...). Plus, it is easy to
install.
Hide it behind OBSOLETE.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
sstrip is now alone in its 'tools' menu, and we will probably never gain
any other 'tool'. Besides, sstrip is just strip, but a little bit more
agressive, so it deserves going to the 'binary utilities' menu.
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.
