binutils 2.26.1 fatal linker error / elf hack

[assemblerhead]

If the Gentoo user has or is using "sys-devel/binutils-2.26.1", this error occurs compiling any version of "www-client/palemoon".

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10:07.49 ===
10:07.49 === If you get failures below, please file a bug describing the error
10:07.49 === and your environment (compiler and linker versions), and use
10:07.50 === --disable-elf-hack until this is fixed.
10:07.50 ===
10:07.50  0x000000000000000c (INIT)               0x4030
10:07.51 elfhack: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/palemoon-27.1.2/work/palemoon-27.1.2/build/unix/elfhack/elf.cpp:261: Elf::Elf(std::ifstream&): Assertion `segment->getFileSize() == phdr.p_filesz' failed.
10:07.51 gmake[5]: *** [Makefile:29: test-ctors.so] Aborted
10:07.51 gmake[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
10:07.57 gmake[4]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/palemoon-27.1.2/work/palemoon-27.1.2/config/recurse.mk:82: build/unix/elfhack/libs] Error 2
10:07.57 gmake[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/palemoon-27.1.2/work/palemoon-27.1.2/config/recurse.mk:37: libs] Error 2
10:07.57 gmake[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/palemoon-27.1.2/work/palemoon-27.1.2/config/rules.mk:541: default] Error 2
10:07.57 gmake[1]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/palemoon-27.1.2/work/palemoon-27.1.2/client.mk:398: realbuild] Error 2
10:07.57 gmake: *** [client.mk:171: build] Error 2
10:07.57 222 compiler warnings present.

"sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1" works just fine / no fatal error.
( tested v26.5.0, v27.0.3, v27.1.0, v27.1.2 )

Requested compilier information :

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# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.9.4/gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.9.4/work/gcc-4.9.4/configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.9.4 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/include/g++-v4 --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/python --enable-objc-gc --enable-languages=c,c++,java,objc,obj-c++,fortran --enable-obsolete --enable-secureplt --disable-werror --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-checking=release --with-bugurl=https://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.9.4 p1.0, pie-0.6.4' --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --enable-targets=all --enable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libcilkrts --enable-vtable-verify --enable-libvtv --enable-lto --with-cloog --disable-isl-version-check --enable-libsanitizer
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.4 (Gentoo 4.9.4 p1.0, pie-0.6.4) 

Requested linker infromation :

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( binutils-2.25.1 )
# ld -v
GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1

( binutils-2.26.1 )
# ld -v
GNU ld (Gentoo 2.26.1 p1.0) 2.26.1

[ajmacleod]

I've just come across this one myself today - I had thought it might be a change between 27.2.0 and 27.2.1 but I recall having upgraded binutils very recently. Build (of PM 27.2.1) fails using binutils-2.26.1, gcc-4.9.4