1246416 - Assertion failure in elfhack with gold-2.26 on linux x86_64

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1233963

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken Moffat]

Attachment: options in my mozconfig

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160206165817

Steps to reproduce:

Using gcc-5.3.0 and GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.26.20160125) 1.11 I tried to compile firefox-44.0.


Actual results:

Assertion failure:
# Fail if the library doesn't have INIT .dynamic info
===
# Fail if the library doesn't have INIT_ARRAY .dynamic info
readelf -d test-ctors.so | grep '(INIT)'
readelf -d test-array.so | grep '(INIT_ARRAY)'
 0x000000000000000c (INIT)               0x4020
 0x0000000000000019 (INIT_ARRAY)         0x9a10
/scratch/working/firefox-44.0/firefox-build-dir/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack -b -f test-ctors.so
/scratch/working/firefox-44.0/firefox-build-dir/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack -b -f test-array.so
elfhack: /scratch/working/firefox-44.0/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp:261: Elf::Elf(std::ifstream&): Assertion `segment->getFileSize() == phdr.p_filesz' failed.
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'test-ctors.so' failed
make[5]: *** [test-ctors.so] Aborted
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
elfhack: /scratch/working/firefox-44.0/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp:261: Elf::Elf(std::ifstream&): Assertion `segment->getFileSize() == phdr.p_filesz' failed.
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'test-array.so' failed
make[5]: *** [test-array.so] Aborted
make[5]: Leaving directory '/scratch/working/firefox-44.0/firefox-build-dir/build/unix/elfhack'
/scratch/working/firefox-44.0/config/recurse.mk:79: recipe for target 'build/unix/elfhack/libs' failed
make[4]: *** [build/unix/elfhack/libs] Error 2



Expected results:

Successful compilation would have been nice ;-)

I did as was suggested a few lines above the part I pasted, and used --disable-elf-hack. Now that I have built and installed it, I'm filing a bug as requested.

I've got the whole log from the failed build, if required, but it is 3.6 MB and 12350 lines, so for the moment I am not attaching it. I will attach the part showing the options in my mozconfig.

Comment 1

[Ken Moffat]

I've now hit the same thing using old GNU ld, so binutils-2.26 is the apparent cause of this, not gold.