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[bug#31741] [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Fix build on AArch64.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: [bug#31741] [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: Fix build on AArch64.
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:45:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello Marius!

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/patches/binutils-aarch64-symbol-relocation.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register it.
> * gnu/packages/base.scm (binutils-sans-bug-22764): New public variable.
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (make-linux-libre)[native-inputs]: On aarch64, define
> new ld-wrapper with the above binutils and use it.

Woohoo, excellent!

> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-aarch64-symbol-relocation.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
> +Fix a regression in Binutils 2.30 where some symbols are incorrectly assumed
> +to be addresses:
> +
> +https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22764
> +
> +Patch taken from upstream (with ChangeLog entries omitted):
> +
> +https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=279b2f94168ee91e02ccd070d27c983fc001fe12
> +
> +diff --git a/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c b/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c
> +index af448f9..2737773 100644
> +--- a/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c
> ++++ b/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c
> +@@ -7189,10 +7189,19 @@ elfNN_aarch64_check_relocs (bfd *abfd, struct 
> bfd_link_info *info,
> + #if ARCH_SIZE == 64
> +     case BFD_RELOC_AARCH64_32:
> + #endif
> +-      if (bfd_link_pic (info)
> +-          && (sec->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
> +-          && (sec->flags & SEC_READONLY) != 0)
> ++      if (bfd_link_pic (info) && (sec->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0)
> +         {
> ++          if (h != NULL
> ++              /* This is an absolute symbol.  It represents a value instead
> ++                 of an address.  */
> ++              && ((h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
> ++                   && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section))
> ++                  /* This is an undefined symbol.  */
> ++                  || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_undefined))
> ++            break;
> ++
> ++          /* For local symbols, defined global symbols in a non-ABS section,
> ++             it is assumed that the value is an address.  */
> +           int howto_index = bfd_r_type - BFD_RELOC_AARCH64_RELOC_START;
> +           _bfd_error_handler
> +             /* xgettext:c-format */

Perhaps you can omit the ld/testsuite bits that follow (I don’t think we
run this test suite, do we?).

Apart from that LGTM, thank you!

Ludo’.





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