From 7506da0af38aa307f45664f0c787b5767cc7a87f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alejandro=20S=C3=A1ez?= <asm@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:19:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Force gold in aarch64 until binutils 2.41 is on Fedora

---
 src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
index 91e2d5149c..99c305530b 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
@@ -1605,15 +1605,13 @@ func (ctxt *Link) hostlink() {
 			// https://go.dev/issue/22040
 			altLinker = "gold"
 
-			// If gold is not installed, gcc will silently switch
-			// back to ld.bfd. So we parse the version information
-			// and provide a useful error if gold is missing.
+			// In both cases, switch to gold if gold is available.
 			name, args := flagExtld[0], flagExtld[1:]
 			args = append(args, "-fuse-ld=gold", "-Wl,--version")
 			cmd := exec.Command(name, args...)
 			if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err == nil {
-				if !bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU gold")) {
-					log.Fatalf("ARM64 external linker must be gold (issue #15696, 22040), but is not: %s", out)
+				if bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU gold")) {
+					altLinker = "gold"
 				}
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.40.1