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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

The directfb-csource binary linked with the bfd linker segfaults on
startup, so it does indeed look like a compiler problem.