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don't use gold linker by default for GCC >= 11.3 #2711

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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion easybuild/easyblocks/g/gcc.py
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Expand Up @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ def extra_options():
'pplwatchdog': [False, "Enable PPL watchdog", CUSTOM],
'prefer_lib_subdir': [False, "Configure GCC to prefer 'lib' subdirs over 'lib64' when linking", CUSTOM],
'profiled': [False, "Bootstrap GCC with profile-guided optimizations", CUSTOM],
'use_gold_linker': [True, "Configure GCC to use GOLD as default linker", CUSTOM],
'use_gold_linker': [None, "Configure GCC to use GOLD as default linker "
"(default: True for GCC < 11.3.0)", CUSTOM],
'withcloog': [False, "Build GCC with CLooG support", CUSTOM],
'withisl': [False, "Build GCC with ISL support", CUSTOM],
'withlibiberty': [False, "Enable installing of libiberty", CUSTOM],
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if version < LooseVersion('5.0.0') and self.cfg['withisl'] and not self.cfg['withcloog']:
raise EasyBuildError("Activating ISL without CLooG is pointless")

# Disable the Gold linker by default for GCC 11.3.0 and newer, as it suffers from bitrot
if self.cfg['use_gold_linker'] is None:
self.cfg['use_gold_linker'] = version < LooseVersion('11.3.0')

# unset some environment variables that are known to may cause nasty build errors when bootstrapping
self.cfg.update('unwanted_env_vars', ['CPATH', 'C_INCLUDE_PATH', 'CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH', 'OBJC_INCLUDE_PATH'])
# ubuntu needs the LIBRARY_PATH env var to work apparently (#363)
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