Bug#929580: lld-7 cannot link large binaries on ppc64le. Please make lld-8 default on ppc64le.

[Shawn Landden]

Package: lld
Version: 1:7.0-47.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

If you try to link a largish program with lld-7 on ppc64le you get errors:

relocation R_PPC64_REL24 out of range: -15683216 is not in [-8388608, 8388607]

This feature is added in lld-8 and is essential to make the package useful on this platform.

Thus, please make lld-8 default on ppc64el now, insteading of waiting until it is appropiate for
more mature architectures.

-Shawn Landden

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: ppc64el (ppc64le)

Kernel: Linux 5.1.0-gfe9812cb9 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lld depends on:
ii  lld-7  1:7.0.1-8

lld recommends no packages.

lld suggests no packages.

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