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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:12:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@apache.org>
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Subject: R: ld: gold vs bfd
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=0A=0A--- Mer 21/12/11, Andre Fischer <andre@a-w-f.de> ha scritto:=0A...=0A=
> Hi all,=0A> =0A> I ran into a problem with a Linux build.=A0 On Ubuntu=0A=
> (both 32bit and 64bit) linking of comphelper failed=0A> with a lot of unr=
esolved references.=A0 With the help of=0A> Herbert I could solve this by u=
sing a different linker.=0A> Instead of ld.bfd I used ld.gold and could bui=
ld comphelper=0A> and the rest of OpenOffice.=0A> =0A> On Fedora this seems=
 to work out of the box.=0A> =0A> I am now working on CoinMP (the lp_solve=
=0A> replacement).=A0 It builds without problems on Windows=0A> and=0A> Mac=
 but has linker errors on Linux.=A0 Eventually I=0A> found that going back =
to ld.bfd solved this problem.=0A> =0A> Has anybody else experienced proble=
ms with the linker?=0A> =0A> Does anybody on this list have a deeper unders=
tanding of=0A> the Linux linkers and can explain=0A> what is going on and h=
ow to better solve it?=0A>=0A=0AMy understanding is that gold is still expe=
rimental: it=0Ais the planned replacement for GNU ld but GNU ld is=0Astill =
the default for some good reason.=0A =0AThe most common problems I've seen =
with GNU ld are=0Arelated to the linking order:=0A=0Ahttp://stackoverflow.c=
om/questions/45135/linker-order-gcc=0A=0AWhile here, CoinMP has some outdat=
ed components.=0AI have a couple of header cleanups here:=0Ahttp://www.free=
bsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/math/coinmp/files/=0A=0Acheers,=0A=0APedro.