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DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the gold-digger-withdraws-in-shame dept.

An anonymous reader writes: DragonFlyBSD 4.4 is now available for download (x86_64 ISO) and is a feature release that presents many improvements and new features. DragonFlyBSD now uses the Gold Linker by default rather than GNU Ld, updates the Intel and Radeon graphics support against the Linux 3.18 kernel, improves its experimental HAMMER2 file-system updates the locale system and provides collation for named locales, changes out its regex library, and has new hardware drivers. More details on the 4.4 release page.

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  1. Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by unixisc · · Score: 1

    Just wondering 2 things:

    1. Are they going to LLVM/Clang, like FreeBSD has?

    2. Are they implementing Wayland?

    1. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      3. When will it support the gold-standard systemd?

    2. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      3. When will it support the gold-standard systemd?

      "Gold standard"? ... ... ... Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa.

    3. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by m.dillon · · Score: 4, Informative

      LLVM/Clang builds the DragonFly world and kernel but does not yet build the boot loader. It can be brought in via dports. So it isn't 100% yet but very close. When it does get to 100% it will become one of our two officially supported compilers. Those are currently gcc-4.7 and gcc-5.2.1.

      Wayland support isn't really up to us, but there is wayland support in XOrg that I think works for programs desiring to use that API. Don't quote me on it though.

      -Matt

    4. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by fnj · · Score: 1

      Nice to see gcc 5.2.1 supported! Linux distros and BSDs relying on prehistoric gcc versions always bummed me out.

    5. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1

      Out of interest why the move from the old to the new linker?

      I assume there is an advantage as GNU have adopted gold as a project even though it's rather less featureful than its predecessor. I hear things like it's faster, especially for large programs. Is this why you switched?

      I'd be very interested to hear what motivated the change

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      SJW n. One who posts facts.
    6. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? by scruffy · · Score: 1

      LLVM/Clang builds the DragonFly world and kernel but does not yet build the boot loader. It can be brought in via dports. So it isn't 100% yet but very close. When it does get to 100% it will become one of our two officially supported compilers. Those are currently gcc-4.7 and gcc-5.2.1.

      Wayland support isn't really up to us, but there is wayland support in XOrg that I think works for programs desiring to use that API. Don't quote me on it though.

      -Matt

      Ok, got it. No quoting.

  2. Congratulations Matt by joelsherrill · · Score: 1

    Nice to see a new release.

  3. Looking forward to Hammer2 by fnj · · Score: 1

    Do we have any expected timeframe for when Hammer2 will become the default?

    1. Re:Looking forward to Hammer2 by phoenix_rizzen · · Score: 1

      Approx 3 weeks after it's complete, tested, and ready for day-to-day use. ;)

  4. Re:r290x/390x radeon support at last in BSD land? by laffer1 · · Score: 1

    Nothing is stopping AMD from supporting BSD like NVIDIA does. This is a vendor fail and I buy NVIDIA cards to support their BSD efforts even if it is only FreeBSD.

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