ld expression parsing changes reverted on 2.37 branch

[Thomas Backlund]

Den 11.8.2021 kl. 08:03, skrev Alan Modra via Binutils:
> I have reverted
> commit 6afc66a7772e "Re: ld script expression parsing"
> commit fb6c220ebdae "ld --defsym"

Here, the build now fails with:

/usr/bin/ld: ldgram.o: in function `yyparse':
/binutils-2.37/objs/ld/../../ld/ldgram.y:179: undefined reference to
`ldlex_defsym'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

> commit 40726f16a8d7 "ld script expression parsing"
> on the binutils-2.37 branch, to fix PR28217 on the branch.
>


So something subtle somewhere...


The x86_64 host binutils is from binutils-2_37-branch, last commit:

d86cf1b0d5ac6c0d900ae2b2a07fce7c4414d0e6 PR28186, SEGV elf.c:7991:30 in
_bfd_elf_fixup_group_sections

other basesystem bits:
gcc version 11.2.1 20210807
glibc 2.33


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Thomas