[OE-core] glibc broken when linked with gold Was: [oe] State of OE World, 2019-03-16

[Trevor Woerner]

On Thu 2019-03-28 @ 03:40:33 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> Send for oe-core:
> https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/159874/
> but more information might be needed before it gets applied to oe-core
> as discussed with RP. I'll try to get serial cable working on my Nexus 5
> to test it there in runtime, but maybe someone could beat me to it with
> some more easily hackable 32bit arm board.
> 
> > > Can someone confirm that glibc built with gold works for him on arm
> > > (I haven't seen this on x86, aarch64)? Or should we just force bfd in
> > > oe-core recipe?

I have an Olimex imx233-olinuxino-maxi that I build for and test regularly
(arm926ej-s, ARMv5).

Yesterday I performed two builds from master with the following configuration:

	Build Configuration:
	BB_VERSION           = "1.40.0"
	BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
	NATIVELSBSTRING      = "opensuseleap-15.0"
	TARGET_SYS           = "arm-oe-linux-gnueabi"
	MACHINE              = "imx233-olinuxino-maxi"
	DISTRO               = "nodistro"
	DISTRO_VERSION       = "nodistro.0"
	TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm armv5 thumb dsp"
	TARGET_FPU           = "soft"
	meta-freescale       = "master:08173f472244817b85fe4af8ab2add7a0090b122"
	meta-fsl-arm-extra   = "master:b4d2c8462220e7038adffc0a151767ef8da07c5d"
	meta                 = "master:aeaca9bb1b1c8bf44818945dc4b2cbd6d4b5cef2"
	meta-oe
	meta-python
	meta-networking      = "master:24dd9328f7ec964bbad25b7061366f9f2ff6194d"

Both builds explicitly included gobject-introspection.

The first build was done as-is (i.e. using the bfd linker). The second build
had the following in conf/local.conf:

	DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " ld-is-gold"

The default build succeeded. The gold build failed as expected while running
qemu trying to build gobject-introspection.

The good build boots on the hardware and runs fine (as far as I can tell):

	OpenEmbedded nodistro.0 imx233-olinuxino-maxi ttyAMA0

	imx233-olinuxino-maxi login: root
	root at imx233-olinuxino-maxi:~# uname -a
	Linux imx233-olinuxino-maxi 5.0.3-fslc+g20d8efe36350 #1 Thu Mar 28 17:09:20 UTC 2019 armv5tejl armv5tejl armv5tejl GNU/Linux
	root at imx233-olinuxino-maxi:~# g-ir-compiler --help
	Usage:
	  g-ir-compiler [OPTION?]

	Help Options:
	  -h, --help                    Show help options

	Application Options:
	  --includedir                  include directories in GIR search path
	  -o, --output=FILE             output file
	  -m, --module=NAME             module to compile
	  -l, --shared-library=FILE     shared library
	  --debug                       show debug messages
	  --verbose                     show verbose messages