Updated gold to 2.21.1 and removed the patching for the older version of Gold.

install-build-deps.sh

 #!/bin/bash -e
 
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Script to install everything needed to build chromium (well, ideally, anyway)
 # See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions
 # and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuild64Bit
 
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   # First make sure root can access this directory, as that's tripped
   # up some folks.
   if sudo touch xyz.$$
   then
     sudo rm xyz.$$
   else
     echo root cannot write to the current directory, not installing gold
     return
   fi
 
-  BINUTILS=binutils-2.21
+  BINUTILS=binutils-2.21.1
   BINUTILS_URL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/$BINUTILS.tar.bz2
-  BINUTILS_SHA1=ef93235588eb443e4c4a77f229a8d131bccaecc6
+  BINUTILS_SHA1=a22801a9cad45c85e9ff6afc10537d72
 
   test -f $BINUTILS.tar.bz2 || wget $BINUTILS_URL
   if test "`sha1sum $BINUTILS.tar.bz2|cut -d' ' -f1`" != "$BINUTILS_SHA1"
   then
     echo Bad sha1sum for $BINUTILS.tar.bz2
     exit 1
   fi
 
   tar -xjvf $BINUTILS.tar.bz2
   cd $BINUTILS
-  patch -p1 <<EOF
-diff -u -r1.103 -r1.103.2.1
---- src/gold/object.h   2010/09/08 23:54:51     1.103
-+++ src/gold/object.h   2011/02/10 01:15:28     1.103.2.1
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- // object.h -- support for an object file for linking in gold  -*- C++ -*-
- 
--// Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-+// Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- // Written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>.
- 
- // This file is part of gold.
-@@ -2165,15 +2165,6 @@
-                      Output_symtab_xindex*,
-                      Output_symtab_xindex*);
- 
--  // Clear the local symbol information.
--  void
--  clear_local_symbols()
--  {
--    this->local_values_.clear();
--    this->local_got_offsets_.clear();
--    this->local_plt_offsets_.clear();
--  }
--
-   // Record a mapping from discarded section SHNDX to the corresponding
-   // kept section.
-   void
-diff -u -r1.60 -r1.60.2.1
---- src/gold/reloc.cc   2010/10/14 22:10:22     1.60
-+++ src/gold/reloc.cc   2011/02/10 01:15:28     1.60.2.1
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- // reloc.cc -- relocate input files for gold.
- 
--// Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-+// Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- // Written by Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>.
- 
- // This file is part of gold.
-@@ -685,9 +685,6 @@
-   // Write out the local symbols.
-   this->write_local_symbols(of, layout->sympool(), layout->dynpool(),
-                            layout->symtab_xindex(), layout->dynsym_xindex());
--
--  // We should no longer need the local symbol values.
--  this->clear_local_symbols();
- }
- 
- // Sort a Read_multiple vector by file offset.
-EOF
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gold --enable-gold --enable-threads
   make maybe-all-binutils maybe-all-gold -j4
   if sudo make maybe-install-binutils maybe-install-gold
   then
     # Still need to figure out graceful way of pointing gyp to use
     # /usr/local/gold/bin/ld without requiring him to set environment
     # variables.  That will go into bootstrap-linux.sh when it's ready.
     echo "Installing gold as /usr/bin/ld."
     echo "To uninstall, do 'cd /usr/bin; sudo rm ld; sudo mv ld.orig ld'"
     test -f /usr/bin/ld && test ! -f /usr/bin/ld.orig && \
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              sed -e 's/[.]so[.][0-9].*/.so/' |
              sort -u); do
     [ "x${i##*/}" = "xld-linux.so" ] && continue
     [ -r "$i" ] && continue
     j="$(ls "$i."* | sed -e 's/.*[.]so[.]\([^.]*\)$/\1/;t;d' |
          sort -n | tail -n 1)"
     [ -r "$i.$j" ] || continue
     sudo ln -s "${i##*/}.$j" "$i"
   done
 fi