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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 04:41:54 EST


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:34:34AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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.

I am indeed on debian/testing (which is jessie just now I think), I'll
apt-get upgrade to see if its fixed, otherwise, I'll just have to live
with it for now.