5 Jun
2019
5 Jun
'19
6:16 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Alec Ari wrote:
I'm having this problem too, build is failing:
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
I stayed on the 4.14 branch to help prevent these kind of breakages, so much for that idea. Gentoo GCC 8.3.0.
It seems to be a problem with the Gold linker. Using ld.bfd appears to work. I haven't narrowed down the problem, unfortunately.
Greg, given that this change was only for special situations (Clang CFI), can you revert this for the stable trees?
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Kees Cook