linux-kernel - Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:32 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:13 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as:
>
>  "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random
>   but also in more predictible ways."

Maybe even mention a couple of particular known failure cases.

Just in case somebody decides to start up active gold development
again, and actually look at cases it fails at...

               Linus