[OE-core] [PATCH] directfb.inc: enable bfd linker workaround for all arm targets

[Andre McCurdy]

Hi Khem,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andre
>
> I have a fix for this issue in binutils
>
> can you try it out if it works for you ?
>
> https://github.com/kraj/openembedded-core/commit/0e35ad5a35262cfb7a6249ce158f76d1399d6cb4

I cherry picked 5803c581 from your master branch.

It does indeed seem to fix the errors previously seen with the gold linker.

>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Although the gold linker problems with DirectFB have only so far been
>> observed with armv7a, they could potentially affect future arm targets
>> too. Since there's no particular downside to using the bfd linker for
>> DirectFB, apply the workaround to all arm targets.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
>> index b905ab0..603aba3 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
>> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/DirectFB-${PV}"
>> LDFLAGS_append =" -lts -lm"
>>
>> # Workaround for linking issues seen with armv7a + gold
>> -LDFLAGS_append_armv7a = "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', ' -fuse-ld=bfd ', '', d)}"
>> +LDFLAGS_append_arm = "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', ' -fuse-ld=bfd ', '', d)}"
>>
>> BINCONFIG = "${bindir}/directfb-config"
>>
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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