[CC8][GCC] Patch binutils glod

[smuzaffar]

Patch ld.gold to skip warnings about unresolvable relocations in the .gnu.build.attributes section. The patch is authored by Nick Clifton and extracted from binutils-2.31.1-25.fc29.src.rpm

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for branch IB/CMSSW_12_1_X/cc8.

@smuzaffar, @mrodozov, @iarspider can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.
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[smuzaffar]

please test for CMSSW_12_1_X/cc8_amd64_gcc9

[cmsbuild]

-1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-224501/18062/summary.html
COMMIT: 8252462
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_1_X_2021-08-25-2300/cc8_amd64_gcc9
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7242/18062/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

External Build

I found compilation error when building:

for dep in getPackages(pkg.dependencies): installApt(dep, scheduler, cache)
File "./pkgtools/cmsBuild", line 3387, in installApt
raise RpmInstallFailed(pkg, output)
RpmInstallFailed: Failed to install package gcc. Reason:
Reading Package Lists...
error: unknown package: external+gcc+9.3.0-3cf91c792ceaa2a3434a606b35cb6063

* The action "install-cms+cmssw-tool-conf+51.0-9666eb08da1cc613791ddccf127a1cd4" was not completed successfully because The following dependencies could not complete:
build-cms+cmssw-tool-conf+51.0-9666eb08da1cc613791ddccf127a1cd4


[cmsbuild]

Pull request #7242 was updated.

[smuzaffar]

please test for CMSSW_12_1_X/cc8_amd64_gcc9

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-224501/18074/summary.html
COMMIT: 3b566f2
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_1_X_2021-08-25-2300/cc8_amd64_gcc9
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7242/18074/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @ddaina update crab-prod to v3.210825 #7247
• @cms-sw [BuildRules] Cleanup debug messages #7245
• @cms-sw Update cmssw-wm-tools.spec #7241
• @cms-sw [WIP] Remove py3-google-common package #7240

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-224501/18074/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-224501/18074/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 57377 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 39
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3000352
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 300285
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 243
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2699802
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: -6.838 KiB( 38 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 10224.0 ): -0.117 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 136.874 ): -0.023 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 250202.181 ): -0.176 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 25202.0 ): 0.010 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): -0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 4.53 ): 0.004 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 7.3 ): -6.532 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• Checked 165 log files, 37 edm output root files, 39 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 14 / 38 workflows