Re: An error due to installation that require binutils package

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:46:49PM +0300, John Simpson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kindly ask you to have a look at this bug.
> Thank you for your replies.
It's already fixed in QEMU upstream and the fix will be released with 
the 6.0 version next month (the rc0 is already available):
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/bbd2d5a8120771ec59b86a80a1f51884e0a26e53

I guess xen-4.14.1 is using an older version, so if you want you can 
backport that patch in your version, the change should be simple.
Thanks,
Stefano

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:07 PM George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > Thanks for your report.  Can you post your bug report
> > xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?
> >
> > The bug is in the compilation of QEMU, which is an external project; so
> > it’s possible that we’ll end up having to raise this with that community as
> > well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  -George Dunlap
> >
> > > On Mar 28, 2021, at 2:26 PM, John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Just forwarding this message to you. Can you give some thoughs about
> > this? Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 2:21 PM
> > > Subject: Re: An error due to installation that require binutils package.
> > > To: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:55:23PM +0300, John Simpson via Binutils
> > wrote:
> > > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/kvmvapic.img
> > > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > >
> > > -no-pie is a gcc option.  Neither -no-pie nor --no-pie is a valid ld
> > > option.  The fault lies with whatever passed -no-pie to ld.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alan Modra
> > > Australia Development Lab, IBM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 2:17 PM
> > > Subject: Re: An error due to installation that require binutils 
> > > package.
> > > To: John Simpson via Binutils <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > > Please report that to the xen project.  ld -no-pie doesn't have a useful
> > > meaning.  It used to mean the same as ld -n -o-pie, which sets "-pie" as
> > > the output file name.
> > >
> > > Andreas.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
> > > "And now for something completely different."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:55 PM
> > > Subject: An error due to installation that require binutils package.
> > > To: <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Recently I got a following error due to installation xen on
> > 5.11.6-1-MANJARO kernel:
> > >
> > >   GEN     target/riscv/trace.c
> > >   GEN     target/s390x/trace.c
> > >   GEN     target/sparc/trace.c
> > >   GEN     util/trace.c
> > >   GEN     config-all-devices.mak
> > > make[1]: Entering directory
> > '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen/slirp'
> > > make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen/slirp'
> > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.img
> > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot.img
> > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot_dma.img
> > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/kvmvapic.img
> > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: multiboot.img] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: linuxboot_dma.img] Error 1
> > >   BUILD   pc-bios/optionrom/pvh.img
> > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: linuxboot.img] Error 1
> > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: kvmvapic.img] Error 1
> > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:50: pvh.img] Error 1
> > > make: *** [Makefile:581: pc-bios/optionrom/all] Error 2
> > > make: Leaving directory
> > '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen-build'
> > > make[3]: *** [Makefile:218: subdir-all-qemu-xen-dir] Error 2
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools'
> > > make[2]: ***
> > [/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/../tools/Rules.mk:235:
> > subdirs-install] Error 2
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools'
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:72: install] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools'
> > > make: *** [Makefile:134: install-tools] Error 2
> > > ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
> > >     Aborting...
> > >
> > > Currently I have fresh binutils 2.36.1-2 and it seems to me that the
> > issue is related to this part of code:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/master/ld/lexsup.c#L451
> > >
> > > It seems to me that this could impact far more users than just me.
> > >