I am trying to replace my default arm-eabi-ld with installed from binutils-gold ld, however during linking I have got
(..../*.o) requires unsupported dynamic reloc; recompile with -fPIC
LOCAL_CFLAGS := -fPIC in Android.mk doesn't help very much. Is there any chance to use gold linker?
good news!
Latest version from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2/+buildjob/2436559 works for me!
my results:
linking with ld: 6 minutes
linking with gold: 1 minute !!!!
installation script:
cd /tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2/+buildjob/2436559/+files/binutils_2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2/+buildjob/2436559/+files/binutils-gold_2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i binutils-gold_2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb binutils_2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
cd $ANDROID_NDK_DIR/toolchains/arm-eabi-4.4.0/prebuilt/linux-x86/arm-eabi/bin/
mv ld ld.backup
ln -s /usr/bin/ld.gold ld
cd $ANDROID_NDK_DIR/toolchains/arm-eabi-4.4.0/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/
mv arm-eabi-ld arm-eabi-ld.backup
ln -s /usr/bin/ld.gold arm-eabi-ld