From: Reid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:33:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note about warnings from the GNU ld 2.16.X linker.
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=7a11908195a6d6bacd13dd49d6f15f18e85ef911;p=oota-llvm.git

Add a note about warnings from the GNU ld 2.16.X linker.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@31440 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html
index e9a03a22fd7..c627731a062 100644
--- a/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -533,6 +533,11 @@ the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
 <p><b>GCC 4.1.1</b>: GCC fails to build LLVM with template concept check errors
       compiling some files.  At the time of this writing, GCC mainline (4.2)
       did not share the problem.</p>
+<p><b>GNU ld 2.16.X</b>. Some 2.16.X versions of the ld linker will produce very
+long warning messages complaining that some ".gnu.linkonce.t.*" symbol was
+defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
+erroneous and the linkage is correct.  These messages disappear using ld
+2.17.</p>
 </div>