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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:10:05 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Burow <nburow@purdue.edu>
Cc:        gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 53.0 Bug Report - gold linker
Message-ID:  <a87l-c5ia-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <439dfd63-0e6f-0d6f-2c17-492f5ea1d508@purdue.edu> (Nathan Burow's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:56:32 -0400")
References:  <439dfd63-0e6f-0d6f-2c17-492f5ea1d508@purdue.edu>

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Nathan Burow <nburow@purdue.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to compile firefox 53.0 on a FreeBSD 11 VM (Virtual Box on
> Ubuntu
> 16.04). I've changed the linker to the gold linker, and it no longer
> builds. 
> The error output and other requested information is below.  This error
> appears
> identical to bug 200845 / 209952 from 2016-06-03. I attempted adding
> "--disable-gold" to MOZ_OPTIONS in the Makefile, but this had no effect. 

--disable-gold tells Firefox to not opportunistically use gold linker.
It does nothing with gold as ld in which case you may need to pass
-fuse-ld=bfd, -fuse-ld=lld or -B/path/to/not/gold via LDFLAGS.



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