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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Learned something pretty basic but also somewhat essential in software and systems engineering, i.e. how to switch the default linker in #Fedora :-)

PS. Needs sudo in order to make an effective change.
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travisfw@fosstodon.org

Travis F W

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@jarkko sheesh I don't even know what a linker links

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Edited 15 days ago
@travisfw then you should read this some day :-) it's still relevant and best book on topic. and as weird as it sounds it is nicely written, has nice backstories and generally very nice story telling.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@travisfw To install full collection of currently popular linkers in Fedora:

sudo dnf install binutils-gold mold lld

This excludes wild, which needs to be installed through cargo:

cargo install --locked --bin wild --git https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild.git wild
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