Armhf dynamic linker path

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 02/05/12 13:25, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> On 2 May 2012 05:15, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2012 11:59, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On 23 April 2012 14:23, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/22/2012 06:06 PM, Michael Hope wrote:
>>>>> On 21 April 2012 09:10, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following up here. Where do we stand? We need to have upstream patches
>>>>>> before we can pull them into the distro - is that piece done?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jon.  I've been away, sorry.  I've just sent the GCC patch and
>>>>> Carlos is on the hook for the GLIBC side.
>>>>
>>>> I saw the email. Could folks do me a favor and let me know the moment
>>>> this lands in upstream and I'll arrange for us to pull it immediately.
>>>>
>>>> (I'm on all the libc lists, but then I'm on almost every list,
>>>> everywhere, so it takes a bit of time to get to it)
>>>
>>> Hi Jon.  There's a fault with the GCC patch so it's still in progress.
>>>  Carlos sent the GLIBC patch out for review today.
>>
>> Hi Jon.  The GCC patch is now upstream as r186859 and r187012.
> 
> I noticed that it now sets the dynamic loader to /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
> even when configured for soft-float ABI and linking against a soft-float
> rootfs.  The resulting binaries then fail to run.  Passing -mfloat-abi=softfp
> to the link command fixes it.  Is this change in behaviour intentional?
> 

Eh?  Exactly what command line did you invoke the compiler with, and
what was the configuration?  Are you sure you don't have a compiler
configured to hard-float by default?

R.