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On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:53:47PM +0200, Gennaro Prota wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm going to build gcc 4.5.1 to experiment with its C++0x
>support and, since its an experimentation, I thought to have a
>try at the gold linker too, if possible.
>
>The Cygwin installation I'm going to use already has its gcc
>4.3.4, which I'd like to keep, and that one uses gnu ld.
>
>Would it be a problem to configure the new compiler with
>
>  --enable-gold
>
>and make it use gold, leaving gnu ld for gcc 4.3.4?

No.  Gold doesn't produce windows executables.

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