| 16 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | Revert binutils and try it, I guess? | 16:43:02 |
 GenericNerdyUsername | in that case it definitely is | 16:44:01 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | wait a minute whats binutils with gold? | 16:44:52 |
| K900 | Configured to use the gold linker | 16:45:22 |
| K900 | Instead of the default bfd one | 16:45:26 |
| K900 | gold was an early attempt at writing a fast linker | 16:46:00 |
| K900 | It wasn't very fast and was never very finished | 16:46:08 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | then why did we change to the binutils-with-gold source tarball? | 16:47:14 |
| K900 | Because that just includes the sources of gold | 16:47:31 |
| K900 | Which we still offer as an option | 16:47:37 |
| K900 | And upstream has dropped it from source releases | 16:47:43 |
| K900 | Honestly we should probably drop i | 16:51:55 |
| K900 | * Honestly we should probably drop it | 16:51:56 |
| K900 | Or at least deprecate it | 16:51:59 |
| K900 | But it costs basically nothing to keep it around for now | 16:52:05 |
| K900 | So it lives on | 16:52:11 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | 
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| GenericNerdyUsername | am i missing something? | 16:53:41 |
| K900 | Missing what? | 16:54:01 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | that looks like a source release with gold | 16:54:13 |
| K900 | Well yes | 16:54:26 |
| K900 | They dropped it from the normal source releases | 16:54:34 |
| K900 | There's now a separate source release with gold for people that really want it for whatever reason | 16:54:44 |
| K900 | Which I guess includes nixpkgs | 16:54:50 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | ohhh | 16:54:59 |
| K900 | You can see there's a binutils-2.44.tar.* | 16:56:03 |
| K900 | That one doesn't have gold | 16:56:06 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | yeah, i was just confused bc no other version has a -with-gold version | 16:56:41 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | i dont really know what to do next about this | 16:57:55 |
 Alyssa Ross | Bisect binutils? | 17:22:59 |
