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? -- Kees Cook