Changeset a11cbb1

Timestamp:

02/28/2024 04:02:53 PM (3 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/mips64el

Children:

e871ed6

Parents:

057e32dc

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/03/2024 02:40:30 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (02/28/2024 04:02:53 PM)

Message:

mips64el: binutils: Do not --enable-gold

MIPS does not support DT_GNU_HASH and DT_MIPS_XHASH is used instead with
--enable-default-hash-style=gnu. But gold does not support DT_MIPS_XHASH
so it will be completely useless and produce many test failures. Just
disable it.

File:

• chapter08/binutils.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

chapter08/binutils.xml

@@ -52 +52 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr       \
              --sysconfdir=/etc   \
-             --enable-gold       \
              --enable-ld=default \
              --enable-plugins    \
@@ -63 +62 @@
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure parameters:</title>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>--enable-gold</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (alongside the
-          default linker).</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
@@ -136 +127 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">grep '^FAIL:' $(find -name '*.log')</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold test suite when the
-    <option>--enable-default-pie</option> and
-    <option>--enable-default-ssp</option> options are passed to GCC.</para>
-
  <!--    <para>Three tests in the gprofng suite are also known to fail.</para>-->
 
@@ -161 +148 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, ld.gold, nm,
+        <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, nm,
         objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
         <seg>libbfd.so, libctf.so, libctf-nobfd.so, libgprofng.so,
@@ -267 +254 @@
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld">
             <primary sortas="b-ld">ld</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="ld.gold">
-        <term><command>ld.gold</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>A cut down version of ld that only supports the
-          elf object file format</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.gold">
-            <primary sortas="b-ld.gold">ld.gold</primary>
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>