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From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] matchbox-keyboard: Fix build failure with ld-is-gold
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:51:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441983077.31676.17.camel@pbcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441975783-21782-1-git-send-email-clopez@igalia.com>

On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 14:49 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
>   * When ld-is-gold is enabled in DISTRO_FEATURES, matchbox-keyboard
>     will fail to build with this error:
> 
>     ld: error: matchbox-keyboard-image.o: requires unsupported dynamic
>                reloc R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC; recompile with -fPIC

This is only an issue for ARM (and only for Thumb2 at that).  I don't
think it's necessarily appropriate to force -fPIC on all targets.

Also, before adding this sort of hack it would be worth verifying
whether this is in fact a toolchain bug and, if it is, fixing it there.

p.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-11 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-11 12:49 [PATCH] matchbox-keyboard: Fix build failure with ld-is-gold Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
2015-09-11 14:51 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2015-09-11 16:46   ` Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
2015-09-14  7:24   ` Khem Raj
2015-09-14 23:01     ` Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
2016-01-14 18:27       ` Khem Raj
2016-01-14 21:22         ` Phil Blundell
2016-01-17 11:15           ` Khem Raj

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