<div dir="ltr">Eric,<br><br>This is definitely something I'd like to improve. I believe karwa's new `-tools-directory` option (<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2912">https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2912</a> and <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/4543">https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/4543</a>) could take care of this problem. If so, we should update docs/Android.md to recommend using that. Could you try using that?<br><br>As for me, I've found success with the symlink solution up until now. I'm not sure why it doesn't work in your case...<br><br>I believe that in later versions of Clang, -fuse-ld accepts full paths to linkers. So it may work if you have a sufficiently recent version -- although I haven't tried myself.<div><br></div><div>- Brian Gesiak</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Eric Wing via swift-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-dev@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-dev@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm being hit by the problem where the wrong linker is being invoked<br>
when trying to build a program with swiftc for Android.<br>
<br>
The problem seems to already be known and reported here, but the<br>
solutions/workarounds don't fully work for me:<br>
<a href="https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1264" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.swift.org/browse/<wbr>SR-1264</a><br>
<br>
The only way I can make this work is by removing/renaming my system<br>
installed /usr/bin/ld.gold so the process can't find it.<br>
<br>
<br>
- Changing my PATH so another ld.gold is found first didn't affect<br>
things. It looks like it always prefers /usr/bin/ld.gold.<br>
<br>
- Adding the symlink for /usr/bin/armv7-none-linux-<wbr>androideabi-ld.gold<br>
didn't help (until I removed my /usr/bin/ld.gold<br>
<br>
- Using the -use-ld= switch seemed to have absolutely no effect for<br>
me. (I tried multiple things like armv7 to find an ld.armv7 and also<br>
tried full explicit paths to the real android ld.gold)<br>
<br>
Any ideas on how to fix this? I don't like having to remove my system ld.gold.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Eric<br>
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