gold build failure when using the same version as system ld

[Matthias Klose]

Seen this when trying to build a package again. The system ld in this case is 
2.19.91.20091005 (configured without gold). Trying to build the very same 
sources with --enable-gold, I get sometimes a build failure of the form:

/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -Wno-format-security  -release `cat 
../bfd/libtool-soversion`  -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -o libopcodes.la -rpath 
/usr/lib dis-buf.lo disassemble.lo dis-init.lo i386-dis.lo i386-opc.lo 
-Wl,/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/opcodes/../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so 
-L/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/opcodes/../libiberty/pic 
-liberty -Wl,-lc,--as-needed,-lm,--no-as-needed
libtool: link: gcc -shared  .libs/dis-buf.o .libs/disassemble.o .libs/dis-init.o 
.libs/i386-dis.o .libs/i386-opc.o 
-L/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/opcodes/../libiberty/pic 
-liberty  -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions 
-Wl,/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/opcodes/../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so 
-Wl,-lc -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-lm -Wl,--no-as-needed   -Wl,-soname 
-Wl,libopcodes-2.19.91.20091005.so -o .libs/libopcodes-2.19.91.20091005.so
as: error while loading shared libraries: 
/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/./opcodes/.libs/libopcodes-2.19.91.20091005.so: 
file too short
make[5]: *** [binary.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091005/builddir-gold/gold'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

On powerpc, I always get a segfault in gas when building the gold testsuite.

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gold  -I../../gold -I../../gold/../include 
-I../../gold/../elfcpp -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/share/locale\"" 
-DBINDIR="\"/usr/bin\"" -DTOOLBINDIR="\"/usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/bin\""   -W -Wall 
   -Werror -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -frandom-seed=binary.o -g 
-O2 -Wno-format-security -Wno-error -MT binary.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/binary.Tpo -c 
-o binary.o ../../gold/binary.cc
g++: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program as)
Please submit a full bug report.

No problem as long as following daily snapshots and prereleases where the soname 
changes, but once the soname stays fixed, the gold build fails.

   Matthias