Index: go/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go =================================================================== --- go.orig/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go +++ go/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go @@ -1389,28 +1389,6 @@ func (ctxt *Link) hostlink() { // Use lld to avoid errors from default linker (issue #38838) altLinker = "lld" } - - if ctxt.Arch.InFamily(sys.ARM, sys.ARM64) && buildcfg.GOOS == "linux" { - // On ARM, the GNU linker will generate COPY relocations - // even with -znocopyreloc set. - // https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19962 - // - // On ARM64, the GNU linker will fail instead of - // generating COPY relocations. - // - // In both cases, switch to gold. - altLinker = "gold" - - // If gold is not installed, gcc will silently switch - // back to ld.bfd. So we parse the version information - // and provide a useful error if gold is missing. - cmd := exec.Command(*flagExtld, "-fuse-ld=gold", "-Wl,--version") - if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err == nil { - if !bytes.Contains(out, []byte("GNU gold")) { - log.Fatalf("ARM external linker must be gold (issue #15696), but is not: %s", out) - } - } - } } if ctxt.Arch.Family == sys.ARM64 && buildcfg.GOOS == "freebsd" { // Switch to ld.bfd on freebsd/arm64.