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Bug 747154 - >=dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.3.1[lto] fails to config with CC=clang on armv7 with ../bin/ld: BFD (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 internal error in bfd_elf32_swap_symbol_out
Summary: >=dev-lang/spidermonkey-78.3.1[lto] fails to config with CC=clang on armv7 wi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2020-10-07 19:12 UTC by tt_1
Modified: 2021-01-13 18:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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build log (spidermonkey-78.3.1.log,28.02 KB, text/x-log)
2020-10-07 19:12 UTC, tt_1
Details
output from emerge --info (emerge-info,5.24 KB, text/plain)
2020-10-07 19:12 UTC, tt_1
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Description tt_1 2020-10-07 19:12:21 UTC
Created attachment 664246 [details]
build log

I believe this is triggered by lto, because unless my memory fools me I already have built spidermonkey-78.2.0 with clang just to see if it works, which it does.  

anyway, here's the most important output:

checking what kind of list files are supported by the linker... configure: error: Couldn't find one that works
DEBUG: <truncated - see config.log for full output>
DEBUG: configure:6445: checking for tm_zone tm_gmtoff in struct tm
DEBUG: configure:6457: /usr/lib/llvm/9/bin/clang++ -std=gnu++17 -c -O2 -pipe -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -fno-rtti -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-exceptions -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Qunused-arguments  conftest.C 1>&5
DEBUG: configure:6496: checking what kind of list files are supported by the linker
DEBUG: configure:6501: /usr/lib/llvm/9/bin/clang -std=gnu99 -o conftest.o -c -flto=thin -O2 -pipe -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Qunused-arguments  conftest.c 1>&5
DEBUG: configure:6508: /usr/lib/llvm/9/bin/clang -std=gnu99 -o conftest -flto=thin -Wl,-plugin-opt=-import-instr-limit=10 -lpthread -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed  -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,text -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,nocopyreloc -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions conftest.list -lm -ldl  1>&5
DEBUG: /usr/lib/gcc/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/9.3.0/../../../../armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: BFD (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 internal error, aborting at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.34-r2/work/binutils-2.34/bfd/elfcode.h:224 in bfd_elf32_swap_symbol_out
DEBUG: 
DEBUG: /usr/lib/gcc/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/9.3.0/../../../../armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: Please report this bug.
Comment 1 tt_1 2020-10-07 19:12:45 UTC
Created attachment 664249 [details]
output from emerge --info
Comment 2 tt_1 2020-10-07 19:17:01 UTC
I've never triggered such an issue, is this an issue with binutils or with gcc?
Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-10-07 21:08:13 UTC
There's a reason why firefox ebuild is forcing specific linker when you use LTO but spidermonkey does not expose USE=clang so you are on your own with this.
Comment 4 tt_1 2020-10-08 18:38:34 UTC
kind of, on amd64 with CC=clang it runs into linking error at the end of the build because it needs --enable-linker=lld to link the lto segments from clang. 

here however, there's another problem and I'm uncertain where to look 

ccing toolchain, you have any idea what happens here?
Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-10-08 21:25:09 UTC
The ld input files are probably invalid. Perhaps clang-specific LTO sections can't be handled by binutils' ld.bfd. LTO format is compiler-specific.

Error message perhaps could be slightly better on binutils side. To say something with better certainty I'll need ld input files.
Comment 6 tt_1 2020-10-09 07:45:59 UTC
I still have the tmpdir and can upload them here, in which part are the ld files?
Comment 7 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-10-09 08:34:15 UTC
(In reply to tt_1 from comment #6)
> I still have the tmpdir and can upload them here, in which part are the ld
> files?

I don't think ./configure leaves temporary files around. config.log will show you exact linker command and .c source file that was used to produce it. From there you can add -Wl,--verbose option to see full ld input.

A toy example is 'LANG=C gcc-11.0.0 -Wl,--verbose a.c -o a |& fgrep succeeded'
Comment 8 tt_1 2020-10-11 19:07:23 UTC
so, after some digging:

the files used during the tests are in work/build, where conftest is executed by the linker. conftest is some sort of asci file which contains only one line: conftest.o 

this file consists of llvm ir bitcode and I believe this is the reason why the bfd.ld linker flakes. 

and also the reason propably why one has to use lld with clang, which passes the test.
Comment 9 tt_1 2021-01-13 18:08:27 UTC
I think this can be seen as fixed with new clang use flag, it sets up lld as a linker automatically and avoids these problems.