[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] poky linux build fails if ARM erratum mfix linker switch is specified

[Andrei Gherzan]

Hi Steve,

On 01/11/2019 05:32, Steve Pavao wrote:
> poky linux build fails when ARM erratum mfix linker switch is specified 
> in local.conf:
> 
> TARGET_LD_ARCH_append += " -mfix-cortex-a53-843419”
> 
> causes build failure.
> 
> Please advise how to use this switch successfully.  I am synced current 
> in master branch in all layers as of today.  The switch causes libtool 
> link to fail due to missing libbz2.so.  If I don’t specify the switch, 
> the build completes without errors.
> 
> It is important to be able to build poky linux with this switch to avoid 
> certain crash conditions as described in the ARM errata document.

I haven't tried this erratum fix. It is indeed implemented at the 
linker's lever. It's curious though to see the bz2 dependency. Can you 
share the specific error? I assume you are doing this on RPi3.

-- 
Andrei Gherzan