Re: commit cfafcd117 "futex: Rework futex_lock_pi() to use rt_mutex_*_proxy_lock()" causes glibc nptl/tst-robustpi8 failure

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 04:34:43 EST


On 05/18/2017 10:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That more or less worked, it still failed:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/src/glibc/build/nptl/tst-once5.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I think this is a bug in the binutils version shipping with Debian jessie.

> But it does that after building the tst-robustpi8 thing, so I seem to
> have all I need here.

Great, have fun figuring out what's going on. :-/

Thanks,
Florian