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| -rw-r--r-- | var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/binutils/package.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/binutils/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/binutils/package.py index 3f73bdbe9f..063ad46df4 100644 --- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/binutils/package.py +++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/binutils/package.py @@ -61,14 +61,13 @@ class Binutils(AutotoolsPackage, GNUMirrorPackage): conflicts('+gold', when='platform=darwin', msg="Binutils cannot build linkers on macOS") - # When you build binutils with ~ld and +gas and load it in your PATH, you may - # end up with an incompatibility between linker and assembler, in particular: - # "unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info" is the error - # I've encountered. - conflicts('~gas', '+ld', msg="Linker and assembler should be the same version") - conflicts('+gas', '~ld', msg="Linker and assembler should be the same version") - conflicts('~gas', '+gold', msg="Linker and assembler should be the same version") - conflicts('+gas', '~gold', msg="Linker and assembler should be the same version") + # When you build binutils with ~ld and +gas and load it in your PATH, you + # may end up with incompatibilities between a potentially older system ld + # and a recent assembler. For instance the linker on ubuntu 16.04 from + # binutils 2.26 and the assembler from binutils 2.36.1 will result in: + # "unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info" + # when compiling with debug symbols on gcc. + conflicts('+gas', '~ld', msg="Assembler not always compatible with system ld") def configure_args(self): spec = self.spec |