[oe] [meta-browser][PATCH] chromium: Do not enforce gold as default linker

[Martin Jansa]

USEGOLD
or
USE_GOLD
?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Provide a knob USEGOLD however to enable it if desired
>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> Cc: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>
> ---
>  recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-browser.inc | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-browser.inc
> b/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-browser.inc
> index 094a3d3..1e4fb1e 100644
> --- a/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-browser.inc
> +++ b/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-browser.inc
> @@ -200,7 +200,12 @@ python add_ozone_wayland_patches() {
>      d.appendVar('SRC_URI', ' ' + d.getVar('OZONE_WAYLAND_EXTRA_PATCHES',
> False))
>  }
>
> -USEGOLD ?= "-Dlinux_use_gold_flags=1"
> +# uncomment below or set it in a bbappend if you want to use gold linker
> +# to link chromium irrespective of system linker, gold speeds up linking
> +# chromium ( 8mins to < 2mins on a decent xeon system)
> +#
> +#USEGOLD = "-Dlinux_use_gold_flags=1"
> +USE_GOLD ??= ""
>
>  EXTRA_OEGYP = " \
>         -Dangle_use_commit_id=0 \
> --
> 2.13.2
>
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