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gcc has had a lot of problems with incremental linking and partial linking at the same time. Basically, the partial link assumes that it's the only link that's going to happen, and it converts weak external symbols into regular external symbols. Then when the real final link happens, those symbols are duplicated and the link fails. Versions of gcc 6 and greater add an option called -flinker-output which lets you tell the linker to do an incremental link. Unfortunately, other bugs make that fail, and so gcc 6 doesn't work either. Hopefully version 7 works better. A --force-lto option was added so that, when only one of lto and partial linking is available, you can switch from having partial linking to having lto. Change-Id: I5e293f5cfb07a14343dc74030d99cb161fb8bbbe Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3680 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.