[Interest] Gold linker configuration in Qt 5

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2020 11:29:17 CEST Ramakanth Kesireddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it recommended to use gold linker or system linker with
> -no-use-goldlinker while configuring Qt5.6.3 and above?
> 
> As per my understanding, gold linker should provide faster linking and use
> less memory than the traditional linker.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts in this regard.
> 
Use gold linker if it works. It is faster and has more features. There were 
some issues on some embedded platforms so I believe the default was changed 
back to bfd around 5.14 or 5.15, but for a long time we would use gold if it 
was detected.

'Allan