svn commit: r327823 - head/share/mk

[Antoine Brodin]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Thu Jan 11 14:03:05 2018
> New Revision: 327823
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327823
>
> Log:
>   Enable ld.lld as bootstrap linker by default on i386
>
>   Akin to r327783 for amd64.  lld has been usable for amd64 for quite some
>   time, but a couple of issues remained that affected i386.  These were
>   recently addressed upstream in lld and merged into FreeBSD (r326831,
>   r326879, r326897, r326957), so we can now use ld.lld on i386 as well.
>
>   Similarly to amd64 this change enables lld only as the bootstrap linker
>   (used to link the kernel and userland libraries and executables), while
>   GNU ld.bfd is still installed as /usr/bin/ld and used for ports builds.
>
>   The ports collection is essentially ready to use lld as the system
>   linker for amd64, but many ports still have trouble with lld on i386,
>   because lld defaults to -ztext, disallowing relocations against readonly
>   segments.  Thus switching the system linker (WITH_LLD_IS_LD) will happen
>   later on a per-arch basis.
>
>   Relnotes:     Yes
>   Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

Hi,

There are some regressions in ports after this change,  could you
revert it and request a proper exp-run?

Thanks.

Antoine