binutils: Disable glob for better portability

Since glibc 2.27 glob interface was changed [1]  and so
"glob" & "glob64" symbols require glibc 2.27+.

For us that means if we build Binutils on a machine with glibc 2.27+
produced binaries won't be any longer usable on machines with older
glibc.

As an example [2]: build on Ubuntu 18.04 (with glibc 2.27) and try to run
on CentOS 7.x (with glibc 2.17), you'll see this:
---------------------->8-------------------
ldd ld
ld: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by ld)
---------------------->8-------------------

Now given glob is not really used by Binutils itself (only needed by GDB)
and we build Binutils & GDB separately let's make at least Binutils
more portable.

In theory we may even try to do the same hack for GDB forcing it to use
imported glob implementation. But since GDB is now built strictly by C++
compiler we'll get waaay to many incompatibilities due to multiple changes
of C++ ABI in between GCC 7.5 of Ubuntu 18.04 and GCC 4.8.5 of CentOS 7.x,
so there's no point to even try.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=ccf970c7a77e86f4f5ef8ecc5e637114b1c0136a
[2] https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/issues/280

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/build/binutils/binutils.sh b/scripts/build/binutils/binutils.sh
index a79bb7e..428a341 100644
--- a/scripts/build/binutils/binutils.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/binutils/binutils.sh
@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ do_binutils_backend() {
 
     [ "${CT_TOOLCHAIN_ENABLE_NLS}" != "y" ] && extra_config+=("--disable-nls")
 
+    # Disable usage of glob for higher compatibility.
+    # Not strictly needed for anything but GDB anyways.
+    export ac_cv_func_glob=no
+
     CT_DoLog DEBUG "Extra config passed: '${extra_config[*]}'"
 
     CT_DoExecLog CFG                                            \