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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:39:32 +0200
From:      Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@freebsd.org>, re <re@freebsd.org>,  src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r339350 - head/contrib/elftoolchain/elfcopy
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 3:53 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:13, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi Antoine, did you bisect to this rev or does it just look like the
> > most probable candidate? Can you copy a pair of differing .o files
> > (say, gcc/cc1plus-checksum.o) from the work dir to freefall?
>
> Antoine provided a tarball of the work dir to me, and pointed out that
> the *-checksum.o files are not interesting - they are warnings only
> and are present prior to the identified change.
>
> Comparing one of the other differing files, e.g.
> stage{2,3}-gcc/expmed.o, demonstrates the problem. Gcc's build
> machinery is reasonably obfuscated so I'm not sure of the exact set of
> operations, but I can infer that the stage2/stage3 comparison is
> running strip on the object files and then comparing the result. Gcc
> is encountering this part of my strip/objcopy change:
>
> > Stripping binaries with relocations
> > referencing removed symbols was already broken, and after this change
> > may still be broken in a different way.
>
> Stripping symbols and relocations from an object file is not a
> particularly useful operation, since the object then can't be linked
> or otherwise used. But it seems Gcc's stage comparison relies on this.
> I did try running "strip --strip-debug" on stage{2,3}-gcc/expmed.o (a
> reasonable operation on object files) and that produced identical
> output.
>
> It may well be that a further change to ELF Tool Chain's strip is
> warranted, but I suspect the most straightforward and reliable fix
> here will be to just have gcc use GNU strip.

The attached patch for the gcc ports fixes the failures for me.

Antoine

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Index: lang/gcc48/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc48/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc48/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).([0-9]+).*/\1\2/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:bzip2
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc49/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc49/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc49/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).([0-9]+).*/\1\2/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:bzip2
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc5/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc5/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc5/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc6/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc6/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc6/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 CFLAGS:=	${CFLAGS:N-mretpoline}
Index: lang/gcc6-devel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc6-devel/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc6-devel/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc7/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc7/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc7/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 CFLAGS:=	${CFLAGS:N-mretpoline}
Index: lang/gcc7-devel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc7-devel/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc7-devel/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc8/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc8/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc8/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 CFLAGS:=	${CFLAGS:N-mretpoline}
Index: lang/gcc8-devel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc8-devel/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc8-devel/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
Index: lang/gcc9-devel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lang/gcc9-devel/Makefile	(revision 482165)
+++ lang/gcc9-devel/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 SUFFIX=		${PORTVERSION:C/([0-9]+).*/\1/}
 USES=		compiler cpe gmake iconv libtool makeinfo perl5 tar:xz
 USE_BINUTILS=	yes
+BINARY_ALIAS=	strip=${LOCALBASE}/bin/strip
 USE_PERL5=	build
 SSP_UNSAFE=	yes
 
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