linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] kbuild: add ld-name macro and support for GNU gold

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:38:59 -0800
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alex Matveev <alxmtvv@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] kbuild: add ld-name macro and support for GNU gold

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 04:32:52PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Right, but you're still only ever using one linker per build, correct?

Correct. LDFLAGS_GOLD makes it move convenient to add gold specific flags
without explicit $(ld-name) checks everywhere, but I'm fine with removing
it in v2.

Sami