Binutils causes abnormally large, non-working binaries since 2.43

[Bastiaan Timmer]

Again apologies, I keep forgetting to hit "reply all" instead of just 
"reply". However, this time this message is also updated with some more 
info:

Thanks you for your thorough reply. It looks like you are onto 
something: I've compiled binutils-2.43 with just that commit undone, and 
all sizes seem to be back to normal.

Contrary to what I mentioned in my previous (accidentally private) 
message, this also solves the problem of executables linked to this 
package not working: this change seems to solve everything. I've updated 
the github page I made for this with this new information, including a 
diff: 
https://github.com/bepaald/binutils_issue/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#update

Of course I do not know the intended use for this particular commit, so 
I won't suggest reverting it, maybe it simply needs fixing. But I'm well 
out of my depth here, so I hope someone else can pick up, though I'm 
more than willing to follow any instructions if I can help in any way.

Thank you again.

Kind regards,
Bas


On 17-02-2025 14:08, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> My first guess would be https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=121a3f4b4f4aac216abe239f6f3bd491b63e5e34, "Update objcopy's --section-alignment option so that it sets the alignment flag on PE sections". But I'm unsure whether the build process for this openssl package is using objcopy.
>
> -Dimitry
>