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To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
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I finally chased down the PowerPC prelink problem.  It appears to be within GCC.

On most systems GCC (for PPC) is configured with --enable-secureplt.  However,
the OE-Core version is not.  The prelinker assumes that for certain types of
relocations that the PPC_GOT table will exist, otherwise it gives up.  (It
doesn't know how to do the relocations in the old style .bss-got table.)

I'm wondering if there is a reason that PPC is defaulting to the old style
.bss-got (other then the secureplt was not enabled by default).

Is this something we should do in all cases, or should this become a
DISTRO_FEATURE like the mips 'mplt' setting?


I'm still building systems and running tests, but adding --enable-secureplt to
both the gcc-cross-initial, and gcc-cross appear to have resolved the prelinking
issues.

--Mark