Andi Kleen <[email protected]> writes:
> On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > Andi Kleen wrote:
>> >> Rationale:
>> >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds
>> >> become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections.
>> >>
>> >
>> > afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any
>> > other distro...
>>
>> Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration
>> finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box. Could it be that the
>> linker uses enormous amounts of memory? I have 4GB so I wouldn't
>> immediately notice.
>
> What binutils version do you use? Maybe that particular problem is
> finally fixed. Of course would still leave the other issues I
> listed.
I'm using the Gentoo default, which is 2.16.1 plus some patches. A
quick scan of the patches suggests that perhaps this one has something
to do with it:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-03/msg00847.html
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