From 6291ddca16be016a161cbbd36323d6073d3e92d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:33:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about warnings from the GNU ld 2.16.X linker.

llvm-svn: 31440
---
 llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
index e9a03a22fd75..c627731a0625 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -533,6 +533,11 @@ the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
 <p><b>GCC 4.1.1</b>: GCC fails to build LLVM with template concept check errors
       compiling some files.  At the time of this writing, GCC mainline (4.2)
       did not share the problem.</p>
+<p><b>GNU ld 2.16.X</b>. Some 2.16.X versions of the ld linker will produce very
+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>
 </div>