Bug#803474: src:systemd: Please use the default linker instead of gold on sparc64

[Michael Biebl]

Am 05.11.2015 um 17:53 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

>> Depending on what actually is broken, a workaround could also be to make
>> that functionality in gold on sparc a nop instead of generating broken code.
> 
> Which would probably involve much more patching and hacking than just using the working linker in the first place.

Well, depending on how broken gold on sparc* actually is, wouldn't it be
an option to simply make /usr/bin/ld.gold a symlink to ld.bfd?
That workaround would be trivial to implement as well.

This would have the additional benefit that this workaround would apply
for all packages that use gold and this workaround can be dropped
exactly when gold has been fixed.

>> Don't you think we should first understand what is broken and what the
>> impact is?
> 
> Well, gold is missing support for SPARCs STT-REGISTER 

I don't actually know what that is. Does that mean every executable that
has been built with gold is broken on sparc?

Regards,
Michael

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