bug#29184: binutils 2.29 fails to set RUNPATH in gcc-cross-boot0

[Marius Bakke]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I tried to cherry-pick the binutils 2.29 update
>> (b0a14e5628eb56052f0c3d21a7b5375f5813b01d), but it breaks the
>> 'validate-runpath' phase of gcc-cross-boot0:
>>
>> starting phase `validate-runpath'
>> validating RUNPATH of 8 binaries in 
>> "/gnu/store/ybh1ifgzs717mz5dp1pk2nrgakqg1l8x-gcc-cross-boot0-5.5.0/libexec"...
>> /gnu/store/ybh1ifgzs717mz5dp1pk2nrgakqg1l8x-gcc-cross-boot0-5.5.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-guix-linux-gnu/5.5.0/cc1:
>>  error: depends on 'ld-linux-x86-64.so.2', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
>> ()          
>
> Oh, it looks like this new Binutils adds ld-linux.so to NEEDED, which
> was not the case until now.
>
> I’ve looked at NEWS files but I don’t see where this is coming from.

This turned out to be because "--enable-new-dtags" is now a configure
flag which defaults to off.  So the patch to enable it was overridden
later in ldmain.c.  I removed the patch and enabled the configure flag.

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