Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 16 2019 - 14:13:30 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and
> > > predictible ways. H.J. stated:
> >
> > s/predictable/unpredictable?
>
> No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
> and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.

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."

or so?

Thanks,

Ingo