[Nix-dev] Re: mostly minimal Nixos built using gold ld where possible

[Rohan Hart]

2010/3/20 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Actually, things could be committed to ‘trunk’ as long as (1) users can
> choose between GNU ld and GNU Gold, and (2) the default remains GNU ld.
>
> Before committing to ‘trunk’, you’d have to make sure that it won’t
> cause too many rebuilds, and in particular that it doesn’t affect
> ‘stdenv’; otherwise that could go to ‘stdenv-updates’.
>
> What do you think?

I can do that.  What's the best way to make this configurable easily
by users?  For Nixos there's configuration.nix - would general nix
users be expected to change the default ~/.nix-defexpr?

> Well, ‘binutilsGold’ has the advantage of being shorter and as
> descriptive as ‘binutilsNonGold’.  ;-)

Works for me if the default is to remain ld.

cheers
Rohan