Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 03:57:11 EST


On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:47 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So instead of dealing with attempts to duct tape gold support without
> > understanding the root cause and without support from the gold folks, fail
> > the build when gold is detected.
> >
>
> The code looks OK in the build system point of view.
>
> Please let me confirm this, just in case:
> For now, we give up all architectures, not only x86, right?

Well, that's the logical consequence of a statement which says: don't use
gold for the kernel.

> I have not not heard much from other arch maintainers.

Cc'ed linux-arch for that matter.

Thanks,

tglx