RFC: Switching armv7 to WITH_LLD_IS_LD for testing

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 15 20:27:31 UTC 2018


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> For amd64 I requested (and for i386 continue to request) multiple
> exp-runs with lld as the system linker (/usr/bin/ld) before switching
> the default in src.conf.5.
>
> I'd like to switch armv7 to WITH_LLD_IS_LD; unfortunately we don't
> have an easy way to execute an exp-run for arm (armv7 specifically).
> If there's no objection I would like to enable WITH_LLD_IS_LD for
> armv7, observe a cycle of ports build, with a plan to leave it enabled
> if the build is largely successful, or revert if not.
>
> Comments?
>

My only issue with lld on arm is the bug I'm chasing wrt arm kernel builds
somehow using lld...

But I don't think that's going to affect this one way or another.

I'm happy with it assuming the exp run doesn't reveal some show stopper

Warner


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