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

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 14/09/15 09:24, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> This may not be a toolchain bug if there is a MOVW_ABS relocation being emitted
> into an object that is eventually linked into shared library. Using -fPIC seems to be right fix
> I know bfd linker silently ignored these relocations and generated bad .so files but that was fixed
> several years ago. So I think what needs to be looked at is why does same .o links ok with bfd linker
> is it some linker trampoline code thats in question here which may be different between gold and ld
> 
> Carlos
> 
> Can you check the linker cmdline of failing link step and see if its generating a shared object there ?
> if thats the case and I assume gcc is generating this relocation into both
> 

It looks is generating an executable (matchbox-keyboard).

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