Bug#1093862: mame: FTBFS on mips64el: collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’

Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:15:53 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
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Source: mame
Version: 0.273+dfsg.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: [email protected]
Usertags: mips64el
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Control: block 1092719 by -1

As noted in #1092719, mame failed to build on the mips64el buildds
since 2024-12-07:

> gcc -o ../../bin/linux/genie [...]
> collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’

I don't know what's going on here.

If the mame maintainers are not particularly interested in keeping it
working on mips64el, I think the way to resolve this would be to ask
for it to be removed from mips64el, as Jeremy suggested in #1092719,
at which point this bug's severity could be downgraded to non-RC.

Thanks,
    smcv