gold linker issues / devkit ?

[Baesken, Matthias]

After switching the OpenJDK build to a Fedora devkit  (from non-devkit  Ubuntu based build) , we were running  into issues described here :

https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/issues/1227

and here :

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/321

When using the gold linker settings from devkit , the dependency on the obsolete SUNWprivate_1.1 reference caused trouble .
Are there any plans to make this :

See https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/make/devkit/Tools.gmk#L433
--enable-gold=default \

Configurable ?
What was the reason to use the gold linker in the devkits , maybe better performance ? Are there some build time numbers on this ?

Best regards, Matthias
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