Bug 914898

Summary:	net-fs/samba-4.19.0: ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'local' to symbol '_end' failed: symbol not defined
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brahmajit Das <brahmajit.xyz>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	brahmajit.xyz, phantom4, StormByte, waltercool
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	912821
Attachments:	Build log and emerge --info For now this workaround works

Description Brahmajit Das 2023-09-28 19:50:35 UTC

With lld 17, samba-4.19.0 fails to build, in the linking phase.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On llvm profile, be on llvm:17
2. Emerge net-fs/samba-4.19.0
Actual Results:  
ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'local' to symbol '_end' failed: symbol not defined
ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'local' to symbol '__bss_start' failed: symbol not defined
ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'local' to symbol '_edata' failed: symbol not defined
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Expected Results:  
Build completes

Comment 1 Brahmajit Das 2023-09-28 19:52:31 UTC

Created attachment 871689 [details]
Build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Brahmajit Das 2023-09-28 19:54:23 UTC

Created attachment 871690 [details, diff]
For now this workaround works

Comment 3 Pablo Cholaky 2024-03-08 07:14:14 UTC

I can confirm this patch works at samba-4.19.4.

Using regular profile with clang as default compiler and lld as default linker