Building on Arch Linux with GGC 5.3 & binutils 2.26 halts on "error: unsupported reloc 42"

[Siosm]

Building on Arch Linux with GGC 5.3 & binutils 2.26 halts on "error: unsupported reloc 42". Downgrading to GCC 5.2 and binutils 2.25 "fixes" the issue. Thus this is most probably an upstream issue.

Sample from the build output:

out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_resolution_trampoline: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_resolution_trampoline: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_generic_jni_trampoline: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_to_interpreter_bridge: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_to_interpreter_bridge: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_instrumentation_entry: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_instrumentation_exit: error: unsupported reloc 42
out/host/linux-x86/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libart_intermediates/arch/x86_64/quick_entrypoints_x86_64.o:function art_quick_deoptimize: error: unsupported reloc 42

The "fix" reported at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/xtmwv4Dw8l0 does not work and turns the error into "unsupported reloc 43".

[thestinger]

It's not an issue we can act on. Just disable Clang there if needed by your build environment. Alternatively, build in a an Ubuntu LTS container which is what Android supports.

[thestinger]

It's not an issue we can act on. Just disable Clang there if needed by your build environment. Alternatively, build in a an Ubuntu LTS container which is what Android supports.