Bug 1285614

Summary:	ckermit FTBFS on aarch64 epel7
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Miloš Prchlík <mprchlik>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	jfeeney, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mprchlik, nickc, ohudlick
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Patch
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	aarch64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: A bug in the linker meant that it was unable to link some AArch64 binaries. Consequence: Some AArch64 programs could not be linked. Fix: Rebase the binutils to the 2.25.1 release which includes a fix for this problem. Result: No more problems linking AArch64 binaries.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 01:53:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1277314, 1285484, 1297579, 1313485

Description Yaakov Selkowitz 2015-11-26 04:20:38 UTC

Attempting to build ckermit from Fedora EPEL on RHELSA 7.2 ends with the following error:

http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/brewroot/work/tasks/411/10150411/build.log

ckcpro.o: In function `wart':
/builddir/build/BUILD/ckermit-9.0.302/ckcpro.c:1510:(.text+0x3080): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC against symbol `dest' defined in .bss section in ckcmai.o
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Note that this package builds correctly on F23, but not F22 or earlier either (with the same error).  Apparently there is a fix in more recent toolchain that we are missing in 7.2.

Comment 2 Nick Clifton 2016-01-29 11:30:48 UTC

The new 7.3 binutils is based upon the F23 binutils, so changing this BZ to MODIFIED so that QE can test/verify.

Comment 5 Miloš Prchlík 2016-06-27 12:14:36 UTC

Verified for build binutils-2.25.1-20.base.el7 - ld refuses to link the binary - which the expected behavior, as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300543#c3 - but provides more descriptive message.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 01:53:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2265.html