Bug#335713: mklibs: [powerpc] failfs when building the gtk d-i

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> writes:

> I suspected the extremely long command line could have something to do 
> with this bug, so I created a patch to mklibs that puts all -u options in 
> a linker script. This reduced the length of the command line from >6000 
> to just over 1000.
>
> Sven tested using this version, but it failed in the same way. This makes 
> me suspect the problem is in ld, not mklibs. (Especially as basically the 
> same reduction works fine on i386.)

Even if the commandline length would cause the segfault it would still
be LDs fault for segfaulting.

But I do like your patch. Using a linker script is certainly a lot
cleaner and will make it much easier to read mklibs output in case of
a problem.

MfG
        Goswin