On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:16:06AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > 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? Turns out that Android required it to be reverted too, so no one needs this :( I'll go revert this, thanks. greg k-h
