[LLVMdev] Improving link time building llvm

[Rafael Espíndola]

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

Cheers,
Rafael