gold linker

[lucasart]

Sorry, this is more programming than chess related, but I've been googling this a bit, and could not find an answer.

I am using gcc 4.9 from the Ubuntu 14.10 repo:
- which linker am I using: GNU ld or Gold?
- how do I verify?
- if I'm using GNU ld, how do I use Gold?

With a build-system (eg. make), and LTO, it seems the linking stage is an important part of build time for the average case (ie. edit a file or two and build).

[Rein Halbersma]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1704 ... old-linker

[Rein Halbersma]

To force use of the gold linker, you can hack some symlinks or add -fuse-ld=gold as a linker flag

[lucasart]

thanks!