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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm... maybe I spoke too soon. lsmod is also segfaulting on startup
so there's something else going wrong with this build.

If I copy the same directfb-csource binary into a rootfs built with
security_flags.inc enabled then it runs OK...