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Date:      Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:15:29 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org" <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BSD ld (was Re: MCLinker and llvm-config)
Message-ID:  <50141021.8040700@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1343484950.37325.YahooMailNeo@web113506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 2012-07-28 16:15, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> The Elftoolchain project has been developing a BSD ld:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/ 
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/browser/trunk/ld 
> 
> 
> I thought that would be the official FreeBSD implementation.

Let's just say there really isn't any consensus yet, except that GNU ld
should be binned. :) 

At EuroBSDCon 2011 there was a toolchain WG, where a few ideas and
requirements for a good system linker were shuffled around.  See
Brooks' report here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/201110DevSummit/Toolchain?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=toolchain-wg-report.pdf



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