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Clang 3.8 error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold-2.25'

I am using Clang 3.8 on CentOS 7.4 to compile a C++ app using third party libraries and their (complicated) makefiles. When including their makefile and running my own I am getting the following error during linkage:

clang-3.8: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold-2.25'

I had a look online, some suggestions were to change this to -fuse-ld=gold, but still, that didn't work.

Could someone explain what this problem is and how I can fix it?

UPDATE

Also tried -fuse-ld=lld but I still get an error:

clang-3.8: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=lld'
Solution

  • Your clang build does not support linking with gold.