Bug#819333: [llvm-3.8-dev] LLVMgold.so is missing, so "clang -flto" is unusable

[Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider]

Awesome - thank you very much! I must confess that I'm not very
proficient in Debian packaging and the package build process. I'll have
to change that some day ;)

Best,
Lorenz

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, at 18:40, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> I think I found the fix. So, don't bother :)
> 
> Le 08/08/2016 à 17:10, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> > I will have a look but don't hesitate to provide a patch to make
> > things moving faster
> >
> > Le 08/08/2016 à 16:41, Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider a écrit :
> >> Dear maintainer,
> >>
> >> this issue is still present in version 1:3.8.1-8. According to
> >> http://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html the fix should be quite simple. I'd
> >> really appreciate it if you could bring back LLVMgold.so in 3.8.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Lorenz
> >>
> >> On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 23:10:18 +0100 Steffen Weinhart
> >> <stw392 at blue-cable.de> wrote:
> >>> Package: llvm-3.8-dev
> >>> Version: 1:3.8-2
> >>> Severity: important
> >>>
> >>> In versions prior to 3.8 (final), there was LLVMgold.so, which was used
> >>> e.g. when clang was invoked with "-flto". When using clang-3.8 with
> >>> "-flto" now, the linker cannot find the library and aborts. Why has it
> >>> been removed? Or at least what package should I install then? "apt-file
> >>> search LLVMgold.so" only finds entries in older llvm-3.*-dev packages.
> >>>
> >>> --- System information. ---
> >>> Architecture: amd64
> >>> Kernel: Linux 4.4.6
> >>>
> >>> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> >>> 900 testing security.debian.org
> >>> 900 testing ftp.deb-multimedia.org
> >>> 900 testing ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 500 testing-updates ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 500 testing-proposed-updates ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 500 stable-updates ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 500 stable security.debian.org
> >>> 500 stable ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 500 proposed-updates ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 50 unstable ftp.deb-multimedia.org
> >>> 50 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 100 jessie-backports ftp.de.debian.org
> >>> 1 experimental ftp.de.debian.org
> >>>
> >>> --- Package information. ---
> >>> Package's Depends field is empty.
> >>>
> >>> Package's Recommends field is empty.
> >>>
> >>> Package's Suggests field is empty.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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