diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5788433..7a9a10c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@
 /lld-7.0.0rc3.src.tar.xz
 /lld-7.0.0.src.tar.xz
 /lld-7.0.1.src.tar.xz
+/lld-8.0.0rc1.src.tar.xz
diff --git a/0001-PATCH-llvm-config.patch b/0001-PATCH-llvm-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/0001-Partial-support-of-SHT_GROUP-without-flag.patch b/0001-Partial-support-of-SHT_GROUP-without-flag.patch
index c060ba3..218da0a 100644
--- a/0001-Partial-support-of-SHT_GROUP-without-flag.patch
+++ b/0001-Partial-support-of-SHT_GROUP-without-flag.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-diff -r -u --new-file lld-7.0.1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp lld-7.0.1.src/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
---- lld-7.0.1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp	2019-01-25 10:12:56.412850573 +0000
-+++ lld-7.0.1.src/ELF/InputFiles.cpp	2019-01-25 10:14:50.557726268 +0000
-@@ -324,17 +324,6 @@
+diff -ru --new-file lld-8.0.0rc1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp lld-8.0.0rc1.src/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+--- lld-8.0.0rc1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp	2019-02-12 08:09:21.746416886 +0000
++++ lld-8.0.0rc1.src/ELF/InputFiles.cpp	2019-02-13 10:41:49.565275043 +0000
+@@ -320,17 +320,6 @@
    return Signature;
  }
  
@@ -19,13 +19,17 @@ diff -r -u --new-file lld-7.0.1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp lld-7.0.1.src/ELF/In
  template <class ELFT> bool ObjFile<ELFT>::shouldMerge(const Elf_Shdr &Sec) {
    // On a regular link we don't merge sections if -O0 (default is -O1). This
    // sometimes makes the linker significantly faster, although the output will
-@@ -439,22 +428,33 @@
+@@ -440,18 +429,24 @@
      case SHT_GROUP: {
        // De-duplicate section groups by their signatures.
        StringRef Signature = getShtGroupSignature(ObjSections, Sec);
 -      bool IsNew = ComdatGroups.insert(CachedHashStringRef(Signature)).second;
        this->Sections[I] = &InputSection::Discarded;
  
+-      // We only support GRP_COMDAT type of group. Get the all entries of the
+-      // section here to let getShtGroupEntries to check the type early for us.
+-      ArrayRef<Elf_Word> Entries = getShtGroupEntries(Sec);
+-
 -      // If it is a new section group, we want to keep group members.
 -      // Group leader sections, which contain indices of group members, are
 -      // discarded because they are useless beyond this point. The only
@@ -50,19 +54,18 @@ diff -r -u --new-file lld-7.0.1.src.orig/ELF/InputFiles.cpp lld-7.0.1.src/ELF/In
        if (IsNew) {
          if (Config->Relocatable)
            this->Sections[I] = createInputSection(Sec);
-         continue;
+@@ -459,7 +454,7 @@
        }
  
-+
        // Otherwise, discard group members.
--      for (uint32_t SecIndex : getShtGroupEntries(Sec)) {
+-      for (uint32_t SecIndex : Entries) {
 +      for (uint32_t SecIndex : Entries.slice(1)) {
          if (SecIndex >= Size)
            fatal(toString(this) +
                  ": invalid section index in group: " + Twine(SecIndex));
-diff -r -u --new-file lld-7.0.1.src.orig/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test lld-7.0.1.src/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test
---- lld-7.0.1.src.orig/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
-+++ lld-7.0.1.src/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test	2019-01-25 10:13:19.312026250 +0000
+diff -ru --new-file lld-8.0.0rc1.src.orig/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test lld-8.0.0rc1.src/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test
+--- lld-8.0.0rc1.src.orig/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
++++ lld-8.0.0rc1.src/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test	2019-02-13 10:40:11.958253274 +0000
 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
 +# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t.o
 +# RUN: ld.lld %t.o %t.o -o %t -r
diff --git a/lld.spec b/lld.spec
index c224b9b..447e187 100644
--- a/lld.spec
+++ b/lld.spec
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-#%%global rc_ver 3
+%global rc_ver 1
 %global lld_srcdir lld-%{version}%{?rc_ver:rc%{rc_ver}}.src
 
 Name:		lld
-Version:	7.0.1
-Release:	3%{?rc_ver:.rc%{rc_ver}}%{?dist}.1
+Version:	8.0.0
+Release:	1%{?rc_ver:.rc%{rc_ver}}%{?dist}
 Summary:	The LLVM Linker
 
 License:	NCSA
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ cd %{_target_platform}
 	-DLLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS=ON \
 	-DLLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR=%{_datadir}/llvm/src \
 	-DLLVM_EXTERNAL_LIT=%{_bindir}/lit \
+	-DLLVM_TABLEGEN_EXE=%{_libdir}/llvm/llvm-tblgen\
 	-DLLVM_LIT_ARGS="-sv \
 	-DFileCheck=%{_libdir}/llvm/FileCheck \
 	-Dcount=%{_libdir}/llvm/count \
@@ -79,6 +80,12 @@ cd %{_target_platform}
 chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/*
 chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.so*
 
+for target in ld.lld ld64.lld wasm-ld
+do
+    ln -s lld %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/${target}
+done
+
+
 %check
 make -C %{_target_platform} %{?_smp_mflags} check-lld
 
@@ -98,6 +105,9 @@ make -C %{_target_platform} %{?_smp_mflags} check-lld
 %{_libdir}/liblld*.so.*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 11 2019 sguelton@redhat.com - 8.0.0-1.rc1
+- 8.0.0 Release candidate 1
+
 * Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.0.1-3.1
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5d4895e..904f4f3 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (lld-7.0.1.src.tar.xz) = e5d3ed280d8ac6014cd6bbe080b11e2c4ebbae81dc14b637e779ec027d818dbae91c6f0de9e94bcecd6bdaa37f12c35141b5d81f0a15251d27932aa9bebd4047
+SHA512 (lld-8.0.0rc1.src.tar.xz) = d766fc989132a34b0d975da02897fee40e9a4cb0027333c2bf5fde5311e78bccc813185d2afb32203f639003e34a9c042f546d3e9a5f709faa995dd5f4b54700