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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2007-06-19 05:52:36 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2007-06-19 05:52:36 +0000
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don't use binutils 2.17
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@37652 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
<ol>
<li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
<li><a href="#software">Software</a>
- <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+ <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a>
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
- <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+ <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
@@ -553,6 +553,12 @@ long warning messages complaining that some ".gnu.linkonce.t.*" symbol was
defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
erroneous and the linkage is correct. These messages disappear using ld
2.17.</p>
+
+<p><b>GNU binutils 2.17</b>: Binutils 2.17 contains <a
+href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111">a bug</a> which
+causes huge link times (minutes instead of seconds) when building LLVM. We
+recommend upgrading to a newer version (2.17.50.0.4 or later).</p>
+
</div>