Noisy warning in configure: WARNING: No acceptable ld.gold linker found! #35872
Description
$ ./configure
Node.js configure: Found Python 3.8.6...
WARNING: No acceptable ld.gold linker found!
WARNING: warnings were emitted in the configure phase
INFO: configure completed successfully
It seems like this is related to the inclusion of using the ld.gold linker as part of --use-section-ordering-file.
The default compiler setup on OSX does not have these features... further, I don't believe the default configuration for node.js even uses --use-section-ordering-file. When I saw this warning at first I was worried that there had been some sort of regression in my build tools locally (something that can happen with OSX / Xcode upgrades) and I lots about an hour of time trying to debug things.
In the end I really couldn't find an easy way to get the ld.gold linker installed on OSX at all.
With all this in mind I wonder if it might make sense for us to only present the warning if the flag that requires the ld.gold linker is passed.
/cc @gabrielf whom I believe added this feature