Bug#888478: systemd FTBFS on mipsel: /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757

Source: systemd
Version: 236-3
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: rebootstrap

systemd fails to build from source on mipsel. Very likely this is not
caused by this particular systemd upload, but by the binutils upload
instead. In any case, the build log (attached) ends with:

| [1514/1858] cc  -o test-dhcp-server 'test-dhcp-server@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-dhcp-server.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| FAILED: test-dhcp-server 
| cc  -o test-dhcp-server 'test-dhcp-server@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-dhcp-server.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757
| collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
| [1515/1858] cc  -o test-ipv4ll 'test-ipv4ll@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-ipv4ll.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| FAILED: test-ipv4ll 
| cc  -o test-ipv4ll 'test-ipv4ll@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-ipv4ll.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757
| collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
| [1516/1858] cc  -o test-dhcp-client 'test-dhcp-client@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-dhcp-client.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| FAILED: test-dhcp-client 
| cc  -o test-dhcp-client 'test-dhcp-client@exe/src_libsystemd-network_test-dhcp-client.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so src/libsystemd-network/libsystemd-network.a -Wl,--end-group '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757
| /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757
| /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:9757
| collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
| [1517/1858] cc  -o test-sched-prio 'test-sched-prio@exe/src_test_test-sched-prio.c.o' 'test-sched-prio@exe/src_test_test-helper.c.o' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -Wl,--gc-sections -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/helmutg/systemd-236=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--start-group src/core/libcore.a src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.a src/shared/libsystemd-shared-236.so -pthread -lrt -lseccomp -lselinux -lmount -lblkid -Wl,--end-group -lseccomp -lpam -laudit -lkmod -lapparmor -lmount -lrt -lcap -lacl -lcryptsetup -lgcrypt -lip4tc -lip6tc -lseccomp -lselinux -lidn -llzma -llz4 -lblkid '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/src/shared' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/helmutg/systemd-236/build-deb/src/shared  
| ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
| dh_auto_build: cd build-deb && LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ninja -j4 -v returned exit code 1
| debian/rules:161: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
| make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/helmutg/systemd-236'
| debian/rules:293: recipe for target 'build' failed
| make: *** [build] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

The build was performed on eller.d.o.

If you reassign to binutils, please set affects.

I put [email protected] into X-Debbugs-Cc. During cross builds I was able to
reproduce a very similar build failure for mips and armhf. A native
build on amd64 seems unaffected. Thus I have included [email protected] as
well.

Hope this helps

Helmut