It may also be reasonable to simply go through and disable gold on musl. It's alleged that it's poorly maintained upstream, with Google's interest shifted to lld, and there do seem to be other issues with it. In combination with #101606, this fixes building multiple versions of llvm, but I was also able to fix their builds by disabling the gold plugin. This approach would not require the same mass rebuilding that fixing this bug in binutils does.

Testing this, I found that ld.gold and ld.bfd differ in handling -static-pie. ld.gold appears to take -static to override -pie, while ld.bfd does not, requiring -static-pie. ld.gold throws an error for -static-pie, so the combination of these two changes could create a problem for pkgsStatic.

@utsl42 Can you resolve the merge conflict?

Please do not merge the target branch into PRs and rebase and resolve the merge conflict.

@ofborg eval

Have we tried upstreaming this fix? If so, it would probably be good to link to that effort in a comment, so we know when the patch can be removed.

@utsl42 please fix the merge conflict.

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info