[releng] Issue #8130: Move the GOLD linker to a separate subpackage of the BINUTLS.

[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc reported a new issue against the project: `releng` that you are following:
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The GOLD linker is currently part of the binutils package.  Unfortunately it seems that
Google have decided not to continue development of the linker, and so it is possible that
it may start to bit-rot.  The linker is still being maintained by the upstream GNU
Binutils project, but new development is not happening.  Thus as a precautionary measure I
would like to move GOLD into its own sub-package of the binutils, in case in the future we
decide that it should be deprecated.

As an aside , it appears that development of LLD, the linker from the LLVM project, is
taking off, so in the long term LLD may well replace GOLD.

Ideally I would like to introduce this change into Fedora 31.  It will affect other
packages that use GOLD as their linker of choice, but I am hopeful that targetting F31
will provide sufficient time to locate and update all such packages.

This request is not essential, and if it decided not to allow it, then GOLD can just
continue to be part of the normal binutils package.

``

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[Igor Gnatenko]

ignatenkobrain added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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What do you need from releng? Just move packages around, make sure that upgrade still
works and just do it :)
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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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That is what I hope will happen - but I wanted to make sure that you guts were aware of
the change, just in case I muck it up ... :-)
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[Igor Gnatenko]

ignatenkobrain added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@nickc By the way, will the BFD stay main linker in Fedora?
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[Mohan Boddu]

mohanboddu added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@nickc Thanks for filing the ticket. But I dont think there is no RelEng work is needed on
this change. But we want to keep an eye on it.

Could you please add the change request wiki url once you filed it.

Thanks.
``

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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Yes - the BFD linker will remain the main limker for Fedora.

The URL for the wiki page is here:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS_GOLD

Cheers
  Nick

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[Suzanne Yeghiayan]

The issue: `Move the GOLD linker to a separate subpackage of the BINUTLS.` of project:
`releng` has been assigned to `mohanboddu` by syeghiay.

https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8130