relative paths in linker script - works with ld.bfd, fails with gold

I've just hit the problem with relative paths in linker script not working for gold in 2.21.53.0.2. Someone else also hit this, so here is fedora bugreport from that person: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635935 -- Arkadiusz MiśkiewiczPLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl

Re: ld gold stops looking for lib if it finds incompatible one first

On Wednesday 24 of August 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Arkadiusz Miskiewicz writes: > > Linux x86_64, 64 bit userspace > > > > binutils 2.21.53.0.2 > > > > bfd works fine > > $ ld.bfd -shared -o ulogd_BASE.so ulogd_BASE_sh.o -lc > > > > bu

ld gold stops looking for lib if it finds incompatible one first

Linux x86_64, 64 bit userspace binutils 2.21.53.0.2 bfd works fine $ ld.bfd -shared -o ulogd_BASE.so ulogd_BASE_sh.o -lc but gold fails $ ld.gold -shared -o ulogd_BASE.so ulogd_BASE_sh.o -lc ld.gold: warning: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so while searching for c ld.gold: error: cannot fi

ld.gold doesn't like if -L points to not a directory

Hi, [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ more ~/test/x.c int main() { return 0; } [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ g++ -L/bin/sh ~/test/x.c /usr/bin/ld: error: /bin/sh: can not read directory: Not a directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status but [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ g++ -L/notexistant ~/test/x.c [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ (

ld.gold: internal error in make_view, at fileread.cc:458

uClibc does one test and checks exit status. For gold it causes internal error. binutils 2.21.51.0.9 on x86_64 linux. $ ld.gold --hash-style=gnu -o /dev/null -b binary /dev/null ld.gold: internal error in make_view, at fileread.cc:458 zsh: exit 1 ld.gold --hash-style=gnu -o /dev/null -b bin