[LLVMdev] Linking tools

[Steve King]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Steve King <steve at metrokings.com> wrote:
>>
>> If there's been recent progress on removing GNU dependencies, I'm all
>> ears.
>
> Basically, LTO for projects that have pre-compiled objects requires
> integration with a real static linker. Currently we use plugins to integrate
> with binutils linkers, Mac ld64, and some other closed-source linkers. To
> cut this dependency, we need a new linker, which is what LLD is intended to
> become.

Thanks and yes, I eagerly await Clang's switch to lld.  Clang also
calls the gcc driver though, at least to invoke collect2.  Will lld
allow clang to remove all GNU dependencies?