1249457 - Does NSS still need to support GNU ld 2.11.90.0.8?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Build, defect)

Description

[Jed Davis [:jld] ⟨⏰|UTC-7⟩ ⟦he/him⟧]

coreconf/Linux.mk says:

# The linker on Red Hat Linux 7.2 and RHEL 2.1 (GNU ld version 2.11.90.0.8)
# incorrectly reports undefined references in the libraries we link with, so
# we don't use -z defs there.

Bug 1233568 comment #9 points out that RHEL 2.1 was a long time ago, so we might not need that workaround anymore.

Comment 1

[Alicja Kario]

The oldest RHEL that gets any kind of support is RHEL-4.9, it has binutils 2.15.92.0.2-27.
Second in line is RHEL-5.6 with binutils 2.17.50.0.6-14.
The oldest RHEL that we are likely to build current NSS on is RHEL-5.11.z, and it has binutils 2.17.50.0.6-26

So no, I don't think that dropping support for ld 2.11 will affect anyone on any supported version of a Red Hat distribution. RHEL 2.1 is *very* old.