golang/0006-Default-to-ld.bfd-on-ARM64.patch
Alejandro Sáez 9ad1a464ad Default to ld.bfd on ARM64
Until now, Go defaulted to ld.gold, but now, the binutils package is
deprecating gold in favor of ld.bfd.

Resolves: RHEL-49036
2024-07-16 15:16:04 -04:00

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From 46ec67413008607e2150e3395668e54e538c5b6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alejandro=20S=C3=A1ez?= <asm@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:18:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Default to ld.bfd on ARM64
---
src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go | 20 +++++++-------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
index eab74dc328..b401f58727 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
@@ -1620,22 +1620,16 @@ func (ctxt *Link) hostlink() {
}
if ctxt.Arch.InFamily(sys.ARM64) && buildcfg.GOOS == "linux" {
- // On ARM64, the GNU linker will fail with
- // -znocopyreloc if it thinks a COPY relocation is
- // required. Switch to gold.
- // https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19962
- // https://go.dev/issue/22040
- altLinker = "gold"
-
- // If gold is not installed, gcc will silently switch
- // back to ld.bfd. So we parse the version information
- // and provide a useful error if gold is missing.
+ // Use ld.bfd as the default linker
+ altLinker = "bfd"
+
+ // Provide a useful error if ld.bfd is missing
name, args := flagExtld[0], flagExtld[1:]
- args = append(args, "-fuse-ld=gold", "-Wl,--version")
+ args = append(args, "-fuse-ld=bfd", "-Wl,--version")
cmd := exec.Command(name, args...)
if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err == nil {
- if !bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU gold")) {
- log.Fatalf("ARM64 external linker must be gold (issue #15696, 22040), but is not: %s", out)
+ if !bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU ld")) {
+ log.Fatalf("ARM64 external linker must be ld.bfd, but is not: %s", out)
}
}
}
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