Update gold linker to 2.23.1

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 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.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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           ['linux_keep_shadow_stacks==1', {
             'defines': ['KEEP_SHADOW_STACKS'],
             'cflags': [
               '-finstrument-functions',
               # Allow mmx intrinsics to inline, so that the compiler can expand
               # the intrinsics.
               '-finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list=mmintrin.h',
             ],
           }],
           ['linux_use_gold_flags==1', {
-            'ldflags': [
-              # Experimentation found that using four linking threads
-              # saved ~20% of link time.
-              # https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/281527606915bb36
-              '-Wl,--threads',
-              '-Wl,--thread-count=4',
-            ],
             'conditions': [
+              # Don't enable multi-threaded linking for 32-bit targets as it
+              # causes intermittent crashed on lucid32: http://crbug.com/161942
+              # TODO(sbc): remove this once gold bug is fixed
+              ['host_arch!="ia32"', {
+                'ldflags': [
+                  # Experimentation found that using four linking threads
+                  # saved ~20% of link time.
+                  # https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/281527606915bb36
+                  '-Wl,--threads',
+                  '-Wl,--thread-count=4',
+                ],
+              }],
               ['release_valgrind_build==0', {
                 'target_conditions': [
                   ['_toolset=="target"', {
                     'ldflags': [
                       # There seems to be a conflict of --icf and -pie
                       # in gold which can generate crashy binaries. As
                       # a security measure, -pie takes precendence for
                       # now.
                       #'-Wl,--icf=safe',
                       '-Wl,--icf=none',
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }