Bug 302450

Summary:	sys-devel/binutils-2.20.51.0.5 with USE=+gold breaks wine and samba
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan Psota <jasiupsota>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	major	CC:	jasiupsota, pva
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	269315

Description Jan Psota 2010-01-27 13:30:10 UTC

(at least)
sys-devel/binutils-2.20.51.0.5 with USE=+gold breaks:
app-emulation/wine (tested with 1.1.36 and 1.1.37)
and net-fs/samba (tested with 3.3.10)
with USE=-gold wine works OK,
with USE=+gold wine and samba gives "Segmentation fault"

1. I tested it only on amd64.
2. older binutils (2.20.51.0.4) didn't do this.

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-27 13:39:04 UTC

From USE flag description:

gold:sys-devel/binutils: Use the new gold linker (written in C++) rather than the standard linker (this _will_ break things)

Also, please, don't CC individual maintainers.

Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-27 13:40:36 UTC

btw, it cause other applications to crash too. See bug 301176 as another example.

Comment 3 Jan Psota 2010-01-27 13:50:37 UTC

> gold:sys-devel/binutils: Use the new gold linker (written in C++) rather than
> the standard linker (this _will_ break things)
So: not to use it?

> Also, please, don't CC individual maintainers.
Sorry.
I will not.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-01-28 00:26:50 UTC

wine/samba are huge packages and gold is a ways away from even being "unstable".  per Bug 301480, USE=gold no longer exists and gold can no longer be the default `ld`.  people have to manually use `ld.gold`.