Talk:Gold

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Installing gold

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This discussion is done as of July 8th, 2017.

In the article, there's a discussion on how to build gold with EXTRA_ECONF. But it seems gold is built by default anyway, without any extra work required, and it has been for a while...

$ ld.gold --version
GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.22) 1.11
Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alec (talk • contribs)

Answering myself: EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-gold=default" is to set ld.gold as the ld by default. Alec (talk) 23:12, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Glad you updated this discussion with the answer. Thanks for the good work; I will close the discussion now. Kind regards, --Maffblaster (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2017 (UTC)