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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello

Le 26/05/2019 à 18:18, Shawn Landden a écrit :
> 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.
>
lld-8 won't ship in buster, so, not really a workaround.

A fix could be to disable lld-7 on ppc64el.

S