[OE-core] [PATCH 00/14] eglibc 2.16

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 07:35:19AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> This patch adds eglibc 2.16 recipes. I was able to build world
>> on x86 except perf which was failing with 2.15 as well.
>>
>> I have also build and run core-image-sato on all qemus
>>
>> I did not remove 2.15 to allow some soak in time.
>>
>> The following changes since commit 5beb7176d361d4bfa279bbfab5a17b8fe4fa3b73:
>>
>>   netbase: update to ver. 5.0 (2012-07-05 14:18:19 +0100)
>
> Build and runtime tested on armv4t with bfd (om-gta02), but on armv7a
> (where I have enabled gold) it fails in do_configure already.
>
> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: ld

which package do you see this issue with ?
glibc itself is not buildable with gold. In OE-Core we use gnu ld for
linking eglibc and gold for rest of it.

>
> IIRC I've seen this with older eglibc too, but then it was working
> again..
>
> BTW: gold on armv4t is still unusable right?
>

yes. It still is. I think one option is to try binutils/master, I was
close to fixing it before I ran out of time