Hi,
some changes on FreeBSD 12 and up seem to affect FPC and Lazarus, see "Tasks"
list at the end of the quotation. Maybe it is of special interest to the dev
team.
Re-posting a part of FreeBSDs Quarterly Status Report Q1 2019:
"
LLVM's lld as the FreeBSD system linker
Links
LLD on the FreeBSD Wiki
URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/LLD
lld exp-run
URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/214864
Contact: Ed Maste
In FreeBSD-HEAD and 12.0 the default FreeBSD system linker (i.e.,
/usr/bin/ld) is LLVM's lld, on amd64, arm64, and armv7. For i386 in
12.0 lld is used as the bootstrap linker (i.e., to build the kernel and
base system) but it is not enabled as the system linker because of
multiple issues building FreeBSD ports with it enabled.
The primary issue affecting i386 with lld is that many ports build
position-dependent code (i.e., non-PIC) for use in shared libraries.
This either comes from omitting the -fPIC compiler flag, or using
hand-written position-dependent assembly. Compared with other CPU
architectures i386 position-independent code is rather inefficient,
which may be responsible for port authors making an explicit decision
to avoid PIC.
By default lld does not allow position-dependent code in shared objects
(in particular, it does not permit relocations against read-only
segments - typically containing the`.text` section).
Over the last quarter many commits were made to the ports tree to fix
the build when the system linker is lld - either building PIC code, or
adding the -znotext linker flag to permit relocations against read-only
segments, or just switching the port to link with GNU ld if it is
incompatible with lld in some other way.
At this point there are only a few dozen open bug reports for issues
linking ports with lld as the system linker, and I expect FreeBSD 12.1
to use lld as the system linker on i386 as well.
Tasks:
* Fix freepascal/Lazarus ports with lld
* Triage and address remaining port failures
* Holistic review of lld workarounds in the ports tree, to identify
changes that are no longer needed, should be addressed in lld, or
should be sent upstream
This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.
"
--
Marc Santhoff
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