[PATCH] D14658: rename gnu to old-gnu

[Ed Maste via llvm-commits]

On 14 November 2015 at 17:49, Rafael Espíndola
<llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On 14 November 2015 at 05:06, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Eugene.Zelenko added a subscriber: Eugene.Zelenko.
>> Eugene.Zelenko added a comment.
>>
>> I think will be good idea to update documentation with information how to use lld as linker. I tried -fuse-ld=lld unsuccessfully somewhere in June. PR23913 should be close too.
>
> IMHO the best way to make it easy to use is to complete the
> transition, no? My idea is to
>
> * rename gnu to old-gnu
> * give it a few days
> * rename gnu2 to gnu
> * rename test/elf to test/old-elf
> * rename test/elf2 to test/ELF
> * give it a few days
> * make ELF2 (now gnu) the default

This sounds like a good plan to me.

I've been running the current test/elf suite with elf2 on occasion and
there are a number of tests that pass. Perhaps at the end of this
process we can cherry-pick a set of useful and non-duplicate tests and
move them from old-elf to ELF.