Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net> writes: > Hi, > > mpi@ already fixed some ports (audio/mpd at least) by removing > -Wl,--gc-sections from the linking flags, but 'lots' of other ports > using this construct fail on powerpc. Maybe we should make it a noop on > this arch ?
Unless someone comes up with a proper fix, here's a diff to disable --gc-sections. You should get the following warning: /usr/bin/ld: Warning: gc-sections option ignored Index: bfd/elf32-ppc.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/bfd/elf32-ppc.c,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -p -r1.3 elf32-ppc.c --- bfd/elf32-ppc.c 3 Aug 2015 18:03:04 -0000 1.3 +++ bfd/elf32-ppc.c 17 Mar 2016 21:44:41 -0000 @@ -7447,7 +7447,7 @@ ppc_elf_finish_dynamic_sections (bfd *ou #endif #define elf_backend_plt_not_loaded 1 -#define elf_backend_can_gc_sections 1 +#define elf_backend_can_gc_sections 0 #define elf_backend_can_refcount 1 #define elf_backend_rela_normal 1 -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
