April 2017 update on using LLVM's lld linker in the FreeBSD base system

[Ed Maste]

On 5 April 2017 at 16:09, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Note that as of r316432, all of the above is also available in the
> stable/11 branch.

However some of the changes to FreeBSD haven't yet been merged to
stable/11, and it's probably not possible to build world + kernel with
LLD (via WITH_LLD_IS_LD) on stable/11 today. I expect these to be
merged over time, but this is still very much an experimental feature
right now.