[llvm-dev] Failing compiler-rt LTO test

[David A. Greene via llvm-dev]

Unfortunately lld won't work for us yet due to a lack of linker script
features (sorry, I don't know the details).

Thanks for fixing up the docs.

                       -David

Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> 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