From d9f66e6ca33b96805e768c611e42860e267c863f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:29:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend against using Gold to build LLVM.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@65435 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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 docs/GettingStarted.html | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html
index 93b169352a1..ca20fe97df5 100644
--- a/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -556,6 +556,12 @@ href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111">a bug</a> which
 causes huge link times (minutes instead of seconds) when building LLVM.  We
 recommend upgrading to a newer version (2.17.50.0.4 or later).</p>
 
+<p><b>GNU Binutils 2.19.1 Gold</b>: Gold contains
+<a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9836">a bug</a>
+which causes intermittent failures when building LLVM with position independent
+code.  The symptom is an error about cyclic dependencies.  We recommend not
+using Gold to build LLVM until this bug is resolved.</p>
+
 </div>
 
 
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2.34.1