[llvm] r196100 - Cut the gold plugin README down to size

[Rafael Espíndola]

Thanks!

Bill, this is also good for 3.4.

On 2 December 2013 09:17, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
> Author: alp
> Date: Mon Dec  2 08:17:47 2013
> New Revision: 196100
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=196100&view=rev
> Log:
> Cut the gold plugin README down to size
>
> This file hasn't been updated in years. Remove old information and point to
> the current documentation at GoldPlugin.rst.
>
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/tools/gold/README.txt
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/tools/gold/README.txt
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/tools/gold/README.txt?rev=196100&r1=196099&r2=196100&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/tools/gold/README.txt (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/tools/gold/README.txt Mon Dec  2 08:17:47 2013
> @@ -1,21 +1,13 @@
> +The LLVM Gold LTO Plugin
> +========================
> +
>  This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils
>  gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in
>  binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins.
>
> -Obtaining binutils:
> -
> -  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs at sourceware.org:/cvs/src login
> -  {enter "anoncvs" as the password}
> -  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs at sourceware.org:/cvs/src co binutils
> -
> -This will create a src/ directory. Make a build/ directory and from
> -there configure binutils with "../src/configure --enable-gold --enable-plugins".
> -Then build binutils with "make all-gold".
> +See docs/GoldPlugin.html for complete build and usage instructions.
>
> -To build the LLVMgold plugin, configure LLVM with the option
> ---with-binutils-include=/path/to/binutils/src/include/ --enable-pic. To use the
> -plugin, run "ld-new --plugin /path/to/LLVMgold.so".
> -Without PIC libLTO and LLVMgold are not being built (because they would fail
> -link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined).
> +NOTE: libLTO and LLVMgold aren't built without PIC because they would fail
> +to link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined.
>  As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in
>  your entire LLVM build.
>
>
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