[OE-core] [PATCH] directfb.inc: force bfd linker for armv7a

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 16:44 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 17 November 2015 at 15:16, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> Personally I don't use DirectFB (and am constantly surprised it's
> still a thing) so at this point I'm not going to merge either of
> these patches until someone can confirm that their fix *works on
> hardware* instead of just fixing the build.
I think that's a reasonable position.  In any case, the underlying
issue is a compiler bug and ought really to be fixed there rather than
patching directfb or any other package that just happens to fall over
it.
p.
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