Bug#1121717: mame should stop using binutils-gold

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey,

El dv. 13 de 02 de 2026 a les 00:21 +0200, en/na Adrian Bunk va
escriure:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 09:32:09PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > mame fails to build on arm64 if it doesn't use binutils-gold. See
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1098756
> 
> Builds for me now, not sure whether it's commit 5ad7fd27ba37840
> or some other change in binutils that fixed it.
> 
> > https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/artifact/2989287/
> 
> ...
> ... -fuse-ld=gold -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -
> mbranch-protection=standard -L"." -s -rdynamic  -ldl -lm
> collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
> compilation terminated.
> ...
> 
> That cannot work.
> 
> Removing the "LINK_WITH_GOLD = 1" is the important part,
> the build dependency itself does not change the linker used.

Coincidentally, I'm waiting for the build to finish to upload a fix for
this bug.


Thanks!

-- 
Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>
Debian Project