---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Sat Jan  1 15:36:48 UTC 2022
  files:
  - new: '1.5'
    old: '1.4'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/mold/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/mold/Makefile@1.5
    type: modified
  - new: '1.3'
    old: '1.2'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/mold/PLIST
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/mold/PLIST@1.3
    type: modified
  - new: '1.7'
    old: '1.6'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/mold/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/mold/distinfo@1.7
    type: modified
  id: 20220101T153648Z.bae7e8f072a8feb8a14e0234075d202c88d50bab
  log: |
    mold: update to 1.0.1.

    New features:

    - make install now creates /usr/local/libexec/mold/ld as a symlink to the
      mold executable. We do this for GCC. By passing -B/usr/local/libexec/mold,
      you can tell GCC to use ld inside that directory instead of /usr/bin/ld.
      (e8dcecf)
    - xxHash library is now included in the mold's source tree as a subtree for
      ease of building. If you want to link against a libxxhash in a system
      library directory, pass SYSTEM_XXHASH=1 to make. (665bffa)
    - The extern "C++" directive is now supported in the dynamic list. (7aa5c39)
    - --color-diagnostics is supported. mold used to ignore that flag. (6e290aa)
    - Not only * but also ? are now treated as special characters in the version
      script wildcard pattern. (31b0248)
    - The --threads=N option has been added as an alias for --thread-count=N.
      (f9ff048)
    - The following option has been added: --defsym (f6e8006), -z nodefaultlib
      (8c86c28), -z separate-code, -z noseparate-code and
      -z separate-lodable-segments (5601cf4), -z max-page-size (f3766cd)

    Bug fixes and compatibility improvements:

    - mold now issue a warning instead of an error for an unknown -z option.
      (8bc5736)
    - mold previously created a PT_NOTE segment for non-SHF_ALLOC note segments.
      This is a wrong behavior because we should create segments only for
      memory-allocated sections. This problem has been fixed. (76407a6)
    - Previously, a version script can affect symbol visibility of undefined
      symbols when they are promoted to dynamic symbols. This is a semantically
      incorrect behavior and caused a libQt build failure (#151). The issue has
      been fixed. (3663389)
    - Previously, mold silently turned unresolved undefined symbols into absolute
      symbols with value 0 if -shared, -z defs and -warn-undefined-symbols are
      specified. Even though this behavior makes sense, it's not compatible
      with GNU ld which promotes such symbols into dynamic symbols.
      This incompatibility causes a link failure for Firefox. Since 1.0.1, mold
      behaves the same as GNU ld. (04ccd4d)
    - Previously, mold applied wrong values for relocations against Initial-Exec
      thread-local variables. That caused a link failure for Mesa 3D graphics
      library (#197). The issue has been resolved. (d116113)
    - GCC 7 has a bug that it emits incorrect relocations against thread-local
      variables under a certain condition. That bug was unnoticed because
      existing linkers silently produces an output that works fine in most
      cases but is technically corrupted. mold used to check for that error
      condition and report an error. Now, mold does not report it as an error
      for the sake of bug-compatibility with GCC 7. I don't think relaxing the
      error check will cause any new issue to existing GCC 7 users, because if
      it does, they would have been experiencing the issue with existing
      linkers already. (d9606d6)
    - If an output file has more than one sections for thread-local BSS, they
      were laid out in such that they are overlapping with each other. This bug
      caused a runtime error for programs compiled with DMD, a compiler for the
      D language (#126). This layout issue has been resolved. (b151de6)
    - Previously, mold failed to look up correct files under --sysroot in some
      conditions. That caused a link failure for ClickHouse (#150). This bug
      has been fixed. (135f17c)
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/mold'
  unixtime: '1641051408'
  user: fcambus