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diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html index 72bc9b3e2f..123f0b4589 100644 --- a/docs/GettingStarted.html +++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <ol> <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a> <li><a href="#software">Software</a> - <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a> + <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a> </ol></li> <li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a> @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p> <!-- ======================================================================= --> <div class="doc_subsection"> - <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a> + <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a> </div> <div class="doc_text"> @@ -553,6 +553,12 @@ 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> + +<p><b>GNU binutils 2.17</b>: Binutils 2.17 contains <a +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> + </div> |