ld has been inconsistently upgraded on the buildfarm

[Jake Goerzen via buildfarm]

On 11/13/13 06:16, Dagobert Michelsen via buildfarm wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> Am 13.11.2013 um 10:03 schrieb Laurent Blume via buildfarm <buildfarm at lists.opencsw.org>:
>> Regularly, I'm having silly issues with linking on the buildfarm with different behaviour on x86 and sparc.
>> This time, in krb5-lib: with the same recipe, some binaries get linked to libintl.so on unstable10s, and they don't on unstable10x.
>> On my home system, x86, they do get linked.
>>
>> I'm noticing that ld on the buildfarm is not at all consistent:
>>
>> At home:
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        10300 janv 14  2013 /usr/ccs/bin/ld
>>
>> unstable10s:
>> $ ls -l /usr/ccs/bin/ld
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        10788 Jan 16  2013 /usr/ccs/bin/ld
>>
>> unstable10x:
>> $ ls -l /usr/ccs/bin/ld
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        10172 Jul  4  2011 /usr/ccs/bin/ld
>>
>>
>> Since it's part of the kernel patch, I gather that unstable10x was kept back for some reason, as its kernel is older.
>>
>> Can unstable10x be upgraded? I am reasonably sure it would fix some of the linking issues I'm hitting right now.
>
> I would prefer not to unless we fully understand the issue as discussed on irc.
>
>
> Bets regards+
>
>    -- Dago
>

Hi Dago,

Has there been any update on the issue of ld being inconsistent on the 
buildfarm yet?  I have been putting off working on some things until a 
resolution has been found.

Thanks,
/Jake