Re: binutils: gold linker is broken on mips64el when configured with --enable-default-hash-style=gnu

this is now (temporarily) reverted in 2.43.1-3

On 24.08.24 10:26, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:35AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> CCing debian-mips, what the correct configuration option should be.  Is
>> there a good reason to still use the gold linker instead of the default BFD
>> linker? That probably should be fixed on the GHC side.
> 
> GHC depends on gold since this is the default configuration upstream
> provides. I will look into moving to BFD, but this needs testing to
> ensure nothing breaks.
> 
> Since GHC depends on itself to build, and since the current version of
> GHC uses gold on mips64el, right now we need a working gold on mips64el
> to be able to move forward.
> 
> I still believe this bug should have a severity of critical, since gold
> is broken on mips64el due to a configuration change. In case it helps,
> here is a simple reproducer that doesn't involve GHC at all:
> 
>     $ echo 'int main() {return 0;}' > foo.c
>     $ gcc -fuse-ld=gold foo.c
>     /usr/bin/ld.gold: error: .gnu.hash is incompatible with the MIPS ABI
>     collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Would it help if I try to revert the following change made in version 2.43-1
> 
>     * Configure with --enable-default-hash-style=gnu.
> 
> and provide a patch on this bug report?
> 
> Thanks,
>