[OE-core] [PATCH] matchbox-keyboard: Fix build failure with ld-is-gold

Phil Blundell pb at pbcl.net
Fri Sep 11 14:51:17 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 14:49 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
>   * When ld-is-gold is enabled in DISTRO_FEATURES, matchbox-keyboard
>     will fail to build with this error:
> 
>     ld: error: matchbox-keyboard-image.o: requires unsupported dynamic
>                reloc R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC; recompile with -fPIC

This is only an issue for ARM (and only for Thumb2 at that).  I don't
think it's necessarily appropriate to force -fPIC on all targets.

Also, before adding this sort of hack it would be worth verifying
whether this is in fact a toolchain bug and, if it is, fixing it there.

p.





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