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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> 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.

thats right. real problem here is that there is a static library
generating with out pic options and being linked into
shared object. gold is flagging it since it will fail at runtime.
Please pass --enable-shared to configure that should help
if that does not then pass -fPIC in CFLAGS