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On 13 Dec 2012, at 13:18, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

>> The easiest way of doing this is to make /usr/bin/ld (in the host =
system and in the bootstrap) into a symbolic link that points to =
whatever the selected linker is.  I had to do this when testing gold as =
well (we end up with ld-gold and ld-bfd and ld being a symlink to one of =
them).
>=20
> Yes, a symlink is of course an easy solution post-install. But 'ld' is =
built as part of 'make toolchain', I believe, so this approach wouldn't =
work if I wanted mclinker to be used as the linker in 'make buildworld'. =
The newly built 'ld' in /usr/obj/ would be used as the linker instead.

That's why I said 'and in the bootstrap'.  You'd also need to ensure =
that the bootstrap build of clang and binutils set up the symlink.  =
Purely for testing, I think you can do this manually by doing the =
bootstrap and then the buildworld as separate make invocations.

David=