RFR: JDK-8217723 Switch ld from bfd to gold on gcc toolchain

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/24/19 1:25 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:

> That'd be nice. Maybe we should check for the presence of ld.gold,
> though, and override LD when it is available? That would also allow
> the fallback when ld.gold is misbehaving, but setting LD forcefully.

Yes, we absolutely should check. I just built the latest buinutils, and
gold is not enabled by default. Apart from anything else, that means gold
won't get so much testing.

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