[OE-core] [PATCH v2] systemd: work-around ppc gold linker error

Randy MacLeod Randy.MacLeod at windriver.com
Thu Jun 22 02:14:57 UTC 2017


If you enable systemd and build for qemuppc, then the
compile of systemd fails due to a gold linker failure:

   .../powerpc-oe-linux-ld.gold:
   error: invalid STB_LOCAL symbol in external symbols
   error: linker defined: multiple definition of '00000001.plt_call.memcpy+8000'
   command line: previous definition here

A git bisect confirms that the commit:
   0b0f545 binutils-2.28: Update to latest on release branch
is the problem. This is only known to affect powerpc machines.

Work-around this for powerpc by getting configure to use
the bfd linker rather than the gold linker.

This unblocks powerpc use until the linker bug can be resolved.

Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod at windriver.com>
---
 .../systemd/systemd/systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_232.bb              |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0eb0bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [other]
+
+The patch is not appropriate for upstream since it's a temporary
+work-around for only ppc arches. Once the binutils defect in the
+gold linker is resolved, this patch can be dropped.
+
+Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod at windriver.com>
+
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
+         -Wl,-z,relro \
+         -Wl,-z,now \
+         -pie \
+-        -Wl,-fuse-ld=gold])
++        -Wl,-fuse-ld=bfd])
+ AC_SUBST([OUR_LDFLAGS], "$with_ldflags $sanitizer_ldflags")
+ 
+ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(pid_t)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_232.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_232.bb
index 1007360..1e8dffe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_232.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_232.bb
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ SRC_URI_append_libc-uclibc = "\
 "
 SRC_URI_append_qemuall = " file://0001-core-device.c-Change-the-default-device-timeout-to-2.patch"
 
+SRC_URI_append_powerpc = " file://systemd-drop-gold-use-bfd.patch"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "xz \
                    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'efi pam selinux ldconfig', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'xkbcommon', '', d)} \
-- 
2.7.4




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