[LLVMdev] Improving link time building llvm

David A. Greene greened at obbligato.org
Sat Jun 16 10:30:49 PDT 2007


On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:18, Rafael EspĂ­ndola wrote:
> On 6/16/07, David A. Greene <greened at obbligato.org> wrote:
> > Just FYI, we discovered that GNU binutils 2.17 has a nasty bug in the
> > linker that causes excessive link time when building llvm.  We switched
> > to using cvs binutils and our link times went from minutes to seconds.
> >
> > I didn't see anything about this on the web pages.  It might be good
> > information to add to the Getting Started guide.
>
> Here is the bug:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111
>
> It was fixed in 2.17.50.0.4

Just to clarify, 2.17.50.0.4 is the "Linux binutils" which won't help those
not working on Linux or not using the "Linux binutils."  The "Linux binutils"
is essentially a pre-release version of the next GNU binutils and as such
it can sometimes include less than optimal patches.

Again, FYI.

                                           -Dave




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