From c7cf4869a726ea8f36680d4ef220f9902075dee8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alp Toker Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:17:47 +0000 Subject: Cut the gold plugin README down to size This file hasn't been updated in years. Remove old information and point to the current documentation at GoldPlugin.rst. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@196100 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- tools/gold/README.txt | 20 ++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/gold') diff --git a/tools/gold/README.txt b/tools/gold/README.txt index a906a9083e..286d9af13b 100644 --- a/tools/gold/README.txt +++ b/tools/gold/README.txt @@ -1,21 +1,13 @@ +The LLVM Gold LTO Plugin +======================== + This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins. -Obtaining binutils: - - cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login - {enter "anoncvs" as the password} - cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co binutils - -This will create a src/ directory. Make a build/ directory and from -there configure binutils with "../src/configure --enable-gold --enable-plugins". -Then build binutils with "make all-gold". +See docs/GoldPlugin.html for complete build and usage instructions. -To build the LLVMgold plugin, configure LLVM with the option ---with-binutils-include=/path/to/binutils/src/include/ --enable-pic. To use the -plugin, run "ld-new --plugin /path/to/LLVMgold.so". -Without PIC libLTO and LLVMgold are not being built (because they would fail -link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined). +NOTE: libLTO and LLVMgold aren't built without PIC because they would fail +to link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined. As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in your entire LLVM build. -- cgit v1.2.3