From 40ca48d44fb8794633a466015ab5b34f978bf2c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:44:28 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] binutils: Drop stale references to gold
I'm surprised --enable-gold doesn't cause an error when the tarball does
not contain gold.
---
chapter08/binutils.xml | 28 +---------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/chapter08/binutils.xml b/chapter08/binutils.xml
index 6717543da..70f6bd026 100644
--- a/chapter08/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/binutils.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
- --enable-gold \
--enable-ld=default \
--enable-plugins \
--enable-shared \
@@ -70,14 +69,6 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the new configure parameters:</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--enable-gold</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (alongside the
- default linker).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--enable-ld=default</parameter></term>
<listitem>
@@ -142,12 +133,6 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput remap="test">grep '^FAIL:' $(find -name '*.log')</userinput></screen>
- <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold test suite when the
- <option>--enable-default-pie</option> and
- <option>--enable-default-ssp</option> options are passed to GCC.</para>
-
- <!-- <para>Three tests in the gprofng suite are also known to fail.</para>-->
-
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen>
@@ -167,7 +152,7 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
<segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, ld.gold, nm,
+ <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, nm,
objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
<seg>libbfd.so, libctf.so, libctf-nobfd.so, libgprofng.so,
libopcodes.so, and libsframe.so</seg>
@@ -277,17 +262,6 @@ cd build</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ld.gold">
- <term><command>ld.gold</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A cut down version of ld that only supports the
- elf object file format</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.gold">
- <primary sortas="b-ld.gold">ld.gold</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry id="ld.bfd">
<term><command>ld.bfd</command></term>
<listitem>