Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 16 2019 - 14:46:53 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:13 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> 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