Bug#790560: udev fails to start on sparc boot, breaking boot

[dmm at mattli.us]

Richard Mortimer <richm at oldelvet.org.uk> writes:

> So maybe the code is trying to use the wrong string as input to chdir
> and hence failing.

Is udev using the gold linker during build? I've been looking into a bug
where in certain circumstances, when linking with gold, string literal
function arguments are corrupted.

This problem was also breaking qt, specifically moc.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773590

-David Mattli