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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 15:55 UTC (Tue) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262)
In reply to: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel by wash
Parent article: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

the obvious other linker to try is gold, although of course that's part of GNU binutils too ... there is a reason why people call it GNU/Linux, y'know ;)


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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:53 UTC (Tue) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]

Isn't gold still unable to link usable kernels? Or is it just something that debian folks have fun writing?:)

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 18:34 UTC (Tue) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598) [Link]

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 17:05 UTC (Tue) by nteon (subscriber, #53899) [Link]

As of a couple of months ago, gold was unable to link a working kernel for me. Seems to still be the case: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoldLinkerDefault

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