[U-Boot] [PATCH] config: Always use GNU ld

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Thursday 02 August 2012 12:19:34 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> This patch makes sure that we always use the GNU ld. U-Boot uses certain
>>> construct e.g. OVERLAY which are not implemented in gold therefore it
>>> always needs GNU ld for linking.
>>>
>>> It works well if default linker in toolchain is GNU ld but in some
>>> cases we can have gold to be the default linker and also ship GNU ld
>>> but not as default in such cases its called $(PREFIX)ld.bfd, with this
>>> patch we make sure that if $(PREFIX)ld.bfd exists than we use that for
>>> our ld.
>>>
>>> This way it does not matter what the default ld is.
>>
>> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
>> -mike
>
> Wolfgang, I ended not putting you on CC but I think you're the one who
> would take this patch, aren't you?

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