Bug#1093862: mame: FTBFS on mips64el: collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’

[Simon McVittie]

Source: mame
Version: 0.273+dfsg.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
Usertags: mips64el
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
Control: block 1092719 by -1

As noted in #1092719, mame failed to build on the mips64el buildds
since 2024-12-07:

> gcc -o ../../bin/linux/genie [...]
> collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’

I don't know what's going on here.

If the mame maintainers are not particularly interested in keeping it
working on mips64el, I think the way to resolve this would be to ask
for it to be removed from mips64el, as Jeremy suggested in #1092719,
at which point this bug's severity could be downgraded to non-RC.

Thanks,
    smcv