[llvm-dev] Failing compiler-rt LTO test

[Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev]

Great, glad you are planning to use gold (lld also is fine, it hooks
directly into the LLVM sources without needing a plugin).

For now I have reverted the change to the doc, to avoid confusion.

Thanks!
Teresa

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:15 PM David A. Greene <dag at cray.com> wrote:

> > My understanding in the past is that we didn't officially support
> > using the llvm gold plugin with ld.bfd. We don't have any bots that
> > test that combination (which is why you see the code below in
> > lit.common.cfg). In my mind, that means using the llvm gold plugin
> > with ld.bfd is at your own risk (and therefore I would like to remove
> > the wording around using ld.bfd from the above doc, or at least add
> > that disclaimer).
> >
> > Can you use gold or lld instead?
>
> Thanks Teresa!  We are indeed planning to use gold eventually.  At first
> I thought the tests were failing because ld.bfd wasn't supported but
> then I saw the web page and got confused.  :)  I posted the question
> because I wanted to make sure we hadn't broken anything.
>
> For now I'll just ignore the failures knowing they'll go away when we
> switch.
>
>                             -David
>


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