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Re: Gold linker, make test failures


Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:

> I've been playing around trying to build the packages of our custom
> distro with the gold linker.
>
> Two issues have arisen with version 2.21.51.0.1
>
> Firstly, 'make test' fails when configured with
> --enable-gold=both/gold', like this:
>
> FAIL: flagstest_o_specialfile
> PASS: flagstest_compress_debug_sections
> FAIL: flagstest_o_specialfile_and_compress_debug_sections
>
> I am using a vanilla gcc-4.5.1, and 'make test' works fine without
> --enable-gold.
>
> Is this a known issue? I couldn't find anything on bugzilla except
> with respect to gcc 4-1. I'll add an entry unless there is a trivial
> answer to this.

I'm not aware of any failure here specifically.

Note that only recent versions of gold linker will work when using a
fairly new glibc.  I'm not sure what version 2.21.51.0.1 is.  You need a
version of gold newer than 2010-08-19.

Ian


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