Re: Bug#850887: To the right bug this time: Why do you want us to keep this open?

James Cowgill <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:18:54 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 17/01/17 09:10, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 17.01.2017 um 10:02 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> as additional input, please have a look at [1] which just recently
>> popped up. There seem to be still unresolved issues with binutils on
>> mips*.
> 
> I haven't reassigned this bug report to binutils yet, as I wanted to
> have confirmation from the mips porters that it's a binutils bug.
> They sort-of already confirmed it on IRC but wanted to look into it more
> closely first. In any case, I've CCed them, so maybe they can respond to
> #850887 or #851412

I had a closer look yesterday and it looks like a bug in the gold
linker. You may be able to workaround it by using the bfd linker on mips.

Upstream bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21054

Thanks,
James

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