[LLVMdev] Improving link time building llvm

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Mon Jun 18 22:54:02 PDT 2007


On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, [UTF-8] Rafael Esp?ndola 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

Excellent, thanks for the info.  I added it to the end of:
http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#brokengcc

-Chris

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