llvm/tools/gold
Dan Gohman a1bdcedc38 Add a Force option to raw_fd_ostream to specify whether opening
an existing file is considered an error. Convert several tools
to use raw_fd_ostream instead of std::ostream, and to use this
new option instead of doing a manual check.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@75801 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2009-07-15 17:29:42 +00:00
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gold-plugin.cpp Add a Force option to raw_fd_ostream to specify whether opening 2009-07-15 17:29:42 +00:00
Makefile remove dead makefile flags. 2009-06-24 05:29:56 +00:00
README.txt mention that PIC is needed for libLTO and libLLVMgold 2009-02-04 19:12:25 +00:00

This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils
gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in
binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins.

Obtaining binutils:

  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login
  {enter "anoncvs" as the password}
  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co binutils

This will create a src/ directory. Make a build/ directory and from
there configure binutils with "../src/configure --enable-gold --enable-plugins".
Then build binutils with "make all-gold".

To build the LLVMgold plugin, configure LLVM with the option
--with-binutils-include=/path/to/binutils/src/include/ --enable-pic. To use the
plugin, run "ld-new --plugin /path/to/libLLVMgold.so".
Without PIC libLTO and libLLVMgold are not being built (because they would fail
link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined).
As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in
your entire LLVM build.