> Apparently it did not become the default, so it's not clear how Simon's > build was different. OTOH, I'm not sure if that really changes anything
My issue was /usr/local/bin/ld (bfd) vs /usr/bin/ld (lld) stand/i386/loader/Makefile was only adding -Wl,-z,nostart-stop-gc for lld and that loader does not work without it. > (except that the mystery isn't fully solved)- if it's possible to > configure such a bfd, IMO it doesn't hurt to use it since these > sections/symbols being retained is critical. > > I don't see any reason not to drop the version bits. Ubuntu 22.04 seems > to have binutils 2.38, so that's good at least -- I wasn't sure if the > timing on 2.37 was right for that (or even what Ubuntu's policy is there). > > Thanks, > > Kyle Evans
