[LLVMdev] Improving link time building llvm

[David A. Greene]

On Friday 15 June 2007 19:48, Aaron Gray 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.
>
> Is there a binutils snapshot that can be used instead ?

I would assume that any recent snapshot would have the fix.  I don't
know exactly when they went in.

The "Linux binutils" apparently has the fix.  I believe most Linux 
distributions supply that version.

                                        -Dave