Bug#683782: gccgo: please Recommend: binutils-gold on x86

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
> On 04.08.2012 00:07, shawn wrote:
>> Source: gcc-4.7
>> Version: 4.7.1-6
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> gccgo requires binutils-gold in order to fully use gcc's split stack feature.
>> As this feature is heavily used by the core language constructs of go,
>> (namely "goroutines", which are conceptually light-weight threads)
>> and has large performance inpacts, gccgo should Recommend: binutils-gold. (at least)
>
> no, forcing gold on everything would be wrong. IMO libgomp.spec should add an
> -B/usr/lib/gold-ld option the the libgomp link spec, if this is the preferred
> linker.

You're mixing up libgomp and libgo.  There is no libgo.spec.  libgomp
is irrelevant.

Ian