Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] libtool: upgrade 2.5.4 -> 2.6.2

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2026-08-05 at 15:20 +0200, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue Aug 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM CEST, Jaipaul Cheernam wrote:
> > - Upgrade to first stable release of 2.6 series:
> >   https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10914
> > 
> > - Notable changes since 2.5.4:
> >   - New libtool-next-version tool for guiding library version
> > updates
> >   - Objective-C and Objective-C++ tagging support (OBJC, OBJCXX)
> >   - Allow statically linking clang_rt archives by absolute path
> >   - Fix overlinking of dependency libraries on ELF systems
> >   - Pass --target architecture flag and resource-dir for Clang
> >   - SlimCC compiler support
> >   - MSVC and MSYS2 improvements
> > 
> > - Drop 0005-libtool-Check-for-static-libs-for-internal-compiler-
> > .patch
> >   has been merged upstream.
> > 
> > - Refresh 0003-libtool-remove-help2man-dependency.patch for new
> > line
> >   offsets and to also remove the libtoolnextv_1 man page target
> > added
> >   in 2.6.2.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
> > ---
> 
> Hi Jaipaul,
> 
> Thanks for the upgrade.
> 
> It looks like this breaks build for ricv platforms (qemuriscv64
> MACHINE):
> 
> ERROR: libunwind-1.8.3-r0 do_compile: Execution of
> '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-
> worker/qemuriscv64/build/build/tmp/work/riscv64imafdc-poky-
> linux/libunwind/1.8.3/temp/run.do_compile.1756282' failed with exit
> code 1
> ...
> > riscv64-poky-linux-gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-
> > WCClinker'; did you mean '-Xlinker'?
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:4151: libunwind.la] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-
> > worker/qemuriscv64/build/build/tmp/work/riscv64imafdc-poky-
> > linux/libunwind/1.8.3/build/src'
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:2932: all] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-
> > worker/qemuriscv64/build/build/tmp/work/riscv64imafdc-poky-
> > linux/libunwind/1.8.3/build/src'
> > make: *** [Makefile:625: all-recursive] Error 1
> > ERROR: oe_runmake failed
> > WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/45/builds/2039
> 
> Can you have a look at the issue?

I have a fix for this in master-next which tested successfully
overnight. Khem also agreed with it so I'll get it sent out.

Cheers,

Richard