Re: pkg/51653

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51653; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 Yasushi Oshima <oshima-ya%yagoto-urayama.jp@localhost>
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 inbox@benjaminlorenz.email
Subject: Re: pkg/51653
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 21:00:40 +0100

 >=20
 >  3. Problem of linker. Go ELF linker sets p_align of ELF Header
 >     to 4K somehow.
 >     =
 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/link/internal/arm/obj.go#=
 L107
 >     In Pagesize 8K kernel, this will cause problems when loading =
 binary.
 >     This value can be changed with option '-R' on Go linker:
 >       Go build -ldflags '-R 8192' program.go
 >     However, it can not be specified when build bootstrap tools.
 >     For this reason, it is not able to self-build go distribution on
 >     NetBSD/earm (with 8K page kernel).
 >     I think this is not a problem in only NetBSD, nor only ARM CPUs.
 >     There is no countermeasure even in the current source..
 
 Did you report this upstream? If not, please do and Cc me (@bsiegert) =
 :).
 
 =E2=80=94Benny.=