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On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:56 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> 
+# Workaround for linking issues seen with armv7a + gold
> +LDFLAGS_append_armv7a = "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is
> -gold', ' -fuse-ld=bfd ', '', d)}"
> 

Does the resulting directfb-csource binary actually work with that
change?  My recollection is that ld.bfd will just silently permit
relocs that gold (correctly) refuses to allow.

p.