klibc: Fix linking by using bfd linker when default linker is gold

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc-2.0.4/0001-always-use-bfd-linker.patch b/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc-2.0.4/0001-always-use-bfd-linker.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41a6b9e130
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc-2.0.4/0001-always-use-bfd-linker.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 9ea19bd9636806a73bcf29cfcee40a268f91eb4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:09:52 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] always use bfd linker
+
+its possible that distros choose to default to gold linker
+therefore explicitly asking for bfd linker would fix the
+linking issues on such distros
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ Makefile | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index dc10fc5d..40647be4 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
+ KLIBCROSS      ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)
+ export KLIBCROSS
+ export CC      := $(KLIBCROSS)gcc
+-export LD      := $(KLIBCROSS)ld
++export LD      := $(KLIBCROSS)ld.bfd
+ export AR      := $(KLIBCROSS)ar
+ export RANLIB  := $(KLIBCROSS)ranlib
+ export STRIP   := $(KLIBCROSS)strip
+-- 
+2.13.2
+
diff --git a/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc.inc b/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc.inc
index be59aa4436..c4c3e00b8f 100644
--- a/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc.inc
+++ b/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/klibc/klibc.inc
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git \
            file://0001-Define-in_-structs-for-non-glibc-system-libs.patch \
            file://0001-include-linux-sysinfo.h-directly.patch \
            file://0001-mkfifo-Implement-mkfifo.patch \
+           file://0001-always-use-bfd-linker.patch \
 "
 
 ARMPATCHES ?= ""