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From: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makerules: Generate shlib.lds with -fuse-ld=bfd
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 15:15:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221106231516.ivgzfnk37qvecjf5@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F89C973D-342A-4399-922C-8BBCE850D9A8@gentoo.org>

On 2022-11-06, Sam James wrote:
>
>
>> On 6 Nov 2022, at 23:06, Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-11-06, Sam James wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 6 Nov 2022, at 18:17, Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> lld does not dump a linker script with --verbose (it does not use a
>>>> linker script driven design and lots of linker processing is not
>>>> serializable as a linker script anyway).  With the default
>>>> --with-default-link=no build, $@T is empty and makes `test -s $@T` fail.
>>>>
>>>> Just dump the linker script with -fuse-ld=bfd.  lld since 15
>>>> (https://reviews.llvm.org/D124656) supports custom RELRO sections in the
>>>> GNU ld dumped linker script.
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> What if bfd isn't installed?
>>
>> Then --with-default-link=yes has to be used:)
>
>Configure should check in that case.

The patch isn't worse than the current state: if ld => lld, the build
will just fail due to `test -s $@T` (the linker script is empty).

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-06 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-06 18:17 Fangrui Song
2022-11-06 21:21 ` Sam James
2022-11-06 23:06   ` Fangrui Song
2022-11-06 23:12     ` Sam James
2022-11-06 23:15       ` Fangrui Song [this message]
2022-11-06 23:15         ` Sam James
2022-11-06 23:21       ` Fangrui Song
2022-11-07  8:31 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-08  0:06   ` Sam James
2022-11-08  0:22     ` Fangrui Song
2022-11-08  0:29       ` Sam James

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