How do I tell if I'm using the GOLD linker?

Question

Someone else in my group built LD for my team to use. How can I tell if it was built with --enable-gold?

Answer 1

Check the symlink /usr/bin/ld via ls -al, if it links to ld.gold or ld.bfd. The rest should be obvious.

Note: Nameing might be slightly different, the above is true for ArchLinux. On other systems ld.gold might be called gold directly and ld.bfd could be called ld.