File dont-force-gold-on-arm64.patch of Package go1.18.27086
--- go/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
+++ go/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
@@ -1391,30 +1391,6 @@
// Use lld to avoid errors from default linker (issue #38838)
altLinker = "lld"
}
-
- if ctxt.Arch.InFamily(sys.ARM, sys.ARM64) && buildcfg.GOOS == "linux" {
- // On ARM, the GNU linker will generate COPY relocations
- // even with -znocopyreloc set.
- // https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19962
- //
- // On ARM64, the GNU linker will fail instead of
- // generating COPY relocations.
- //
- // In both cases, switch to gold.
- altLinker = "gold"
-
- // If gold is not installed, gcc will silently switch
- // back to ld.bfd. So we parse the version information
- // and provide a useful error if gold is missing.
- name, args := flagExtld[0], flagExtld[1:]
- args = append(args, "-fuse-ld=gold", "-Wl,--version")
- cmd := exec.Command(name, args...)
- if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err == nil {
- if !bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU gold")) {
- log.Fatalf("ARM external linker must be gold (issue #15696), but is not: %s", out)
- }
- }
- }
}
if ctxt.Arch.Family == sys.ARM64 && buildcfg.GOOS == "freebsd" {
// Switch to ld.bfd on freebsd/arm64.