Bug 811102 – sys-apps/systemd: fails to build with the gold linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld: internal error in segment_precedes, at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.37_p1/work/binutils-2.37/gold/layout.cc:3721)

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description pranav1000 2021-08-30 10:46:56 UTC]

Systemd does not build with ld.gold as the default linker. This is the error message I found:

[530/1957] /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld -o src/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub -T /usr/lib64/elf_x86_64_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -nostdlib -znocombrelo
c --build-id=sha1 -L /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/crt0-efi-x86_64.o src/boot/efi/string-util-fundamental.c.o src/boot/efi/disk.c.o src/boot/efi/graphics.c.o s
rc/boot/efi/measure.c.o src/boot/efi/pe.c.o src/boot/efi/secure-boot.c.o src/boot/efi/util.c.o src/boot/efi/linux.c.o src/boot/efi/splash.c.o src/boot/
efi/stub.c.o -lefi -lgnuefi /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.2.0/libgcc.a
FAILED: src/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld -o src/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub -T /usr/lib64/elf_x86_64_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -nostdlib -znocombreloc --build-i
d=sha1 -L /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/crt0-efi-x86_64.o src/boot/efi/string-util-fundamental.c.o src/boot/efi/disk.c.o src/boot/efi/graphics.c.o src/boot/efi
/measure.c.o src/boot/efi/pe.c.o src/boot/efi/secure-boot.c.o src/boot/efi/util.c.o src/boot/efi/linux.c.o src/boot/efi/splash.c.o src/boot/efi/stub.c.
o -lefi -lgnuefi /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.2.0/libgcc.a
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld: internal error in segment_precedes, at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.37_p1/work/binutils-2.37/gold/layout.cc:3721

Here is my systemd version:
systemd 249 (249)
+PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID -CURL -ELFUTILS -FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN -IPTC +KMOD -LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 -PWQUALITY -P11KIT -QRENCODE -BZIP2 -LZ4 -XZ -ZLIB +ZSTD -XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified

Here is my emerge --info:
Portage 3.0.22 (python 3.9.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/systemd, gcc-11.2.0, glibc-2.33-r7, 5.13.12-gentoo-x86_64 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-5.13.12-gentoo-x86_64-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-8250U_CPU_@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.33
KiB Mem:     8021944 total,   4988184 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:45:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 31522b6f030799bd24074e8bd82de77bd4aa60ef
sh dash 0.5.11.4
ld GNU gold (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p0 2.37) 1.16
app-shells/bash:          5.1_p8::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.34.0-r2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          3.9.6_p1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust-bin:        1.54.0::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.21.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.7-r3::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.24::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.71-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.16.4::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.37_p1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            11.2.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     2.4::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.3::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.33-r7::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24

crossdev
    location: /var/db/repos/crossdev
    masters: gentoo

local
    location: /var/db/repos/local
    masters: gentoo

lto-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/lto-overlay
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://github.com/InBetweenNames/gentooLTO.git
    masters: gentoo mv
    priority: 50

mv
    location: /var/lib/layman/mv
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/user/mv.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fexceptions -fstack-clash-protection -falign-functions=32 -fno-semantic-interposition -pipe -O3 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -flto=12 -fuse-linker-plugin"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fexceptions -fstack-clash-protection -falign-functions=32 -fno-semantic-interposition -pipe -O3 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -flto=12 -fuse-linker-plugin"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fexceptions -fstack-clash-protection -falign-functions=32 -fno-semantic-interposition -pipe -O3 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -flto=12 -fuse-linker-plugin"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fexceptions -fstack-clash-protection -falign-functions=32 -fno-semantic-interposition -pipe -O3 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -flto=12 -fuse-linker-plugin"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_SG.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 apparmor audit btrfs bzip2 caps cli crypt dbus dri gdbm git gtk hardened iconv libglvnd libtirpc lto ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre pulseaudio readline screencast seccomp split-usr ssl svg systemd tcpd udev unicode vim-syntax wifi xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en_GB en_SG" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LLVM_TARGETS="X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-3" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-3" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-3 php7-4" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres12 postgres13" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="aarch64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Tee KOBAYASHI 2021-08-30 16:05:42 UTC]

IMHO default-gold should not be used. The Gold linker is not well-maintained now. See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Gold-Stagnate-F31

[Comment 2 Sam James 2021-08-30 17:39:08 UTC]

Can you please include the full build.log too (always with reports)?

That said, it's right that gold is pretty dead. This looks like a possible binutils/gold bug.

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2021-08-31 23:05:25 UTC]

No idea what that error means. Passing to toolchain.

[Comment 4 Sam James 2021-08-31 23:25:09 UTC]

Apparently the openembedded people noticed this and just decided to go back to bfd: https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg151410.html.

This should be reported upstream at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ but as another commenter noted, I'm not sure if gold is being actively maintained now. Also not clear if systemd upstream are testing with gold.

[Comment 5 pranav1000 2021-09-03 03:53:18 UTC]

I am sorry but I am unable to post the build log. It is bigger than the 100kb limit. What can I do?

[Comment 6 Mike Gilbert 2021-09-03 21:23:03 UTC]

(In reply to pranav1000 from comment #5)

Compress it.

[Comment 7 pranav1000 2021-09-05 02:24:21 UTC]

Created attachment 737539 [details]
build.log

Thank you for your reply. I have attached the build log.

[Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel 2021-09-19 13:43:35 UTC]

FAILED: src/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub 
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld -o src/boot/efi/linuxx64.elf.stub -T /usr/lib64/elf_x86_64_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -nostdlib -znocombreloc --build-id=sha1 -L /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/crt0-efi-x
86_64.o src/boot/efi/string-util-fundamental.c.o src/boot/efi/disk.c.o src/boot/efi/graphics.c.o src/boot/efi/measure.c.o src/boot/efi/pe.c.o src/boot/efi/secure-boot.c.o src/boot/efi/util.c.o 
src/boot/efi/linux.c.o src/boot/efi/splash.c.o src/boot/efi/stub.c.o -lefi -lgnuefi /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.2.0/libgcc.a
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld: internal error in segment_precedes, at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.37_p1/work/binutils-2.37/gold/layout.cc:3721

[Comment 9 Andreas K. Hüttel 2021-09-19 13:46:21 UTC]

Not much we can do except reporting upstream.

[Comment 10 Sam James 2023-08-03 20:32:31 UTC]

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/patch_systemd_boot_use/84646246?p= mentions it. I don't see an upstream report but not looked very hard.