[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add support for ld.gold in toolchain.

[Will Newton]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Steve Thomas wrote,
>
>> The ld.gold linker has been around for about six years, and is quite
>> well supported. It also used to be the only linker for gcc that
>> supported the plugin option needed for LTO.
>>
>> This patch enables a system to be build with the gold linker which is
>> very well supported on recent builds.
>
> But gold is not available for all architectures. I am sure it does
> not work for MIPS f.e.

gold also has problems (or at least did) building working kernels on ARM.