spack install fails while linking

[moritzgubler]

Hi
I was trying to install liflame using spack on centos 7 using: spack install amdlibflame@3.1 %aocc@3.2.0. This failed while linking with the error:

3886 ld.gold: --push-state: unknown option
3887 ld.gold: use the --help option for usage information
3888 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
3889 make[1]: *** [Makefile:12: generate] Error 1
3890 make[1]: Leaving directory '/scratch/gubmor00/spack-stage/spack-stage-amdlibflame-3.1blxdx37qerueegbcdtxr5l3qt3cyvwbg/spack-src/src/aocl_dtl'
3891 make: *** [Makefile:579: src/aocl_dtl/libaocldtl.a] Error 2
3892 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I used GNU ld version 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1.
After upgrading to GNU ld 2.36.1 the problem went away. Is the problem caused by my initial linker being too old?

[iotamudelta]

You seem to be installing the AMD fork of libflame - not this upstream version. Hence, I'd recommend you ask your question here: https://github.com/amd/libflame - but it does indeed look like a newer linker flag is being used which your used version does not support.

[moritzgubler]

Yes, I use the amd fork of libflame. Sorry, I did not realize that there are two separate repos.