Hi,

refind started to fail to build from source somewhere between three
weeks ago (reproducible builds has a successful log for that time) and
now. The failure now is:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/amd64/refind_0.14.2-2.1.rbuild.log.gz
| /usr/bin/ld -L./../libeg/ -L./../mok/ -L./../EfiLib/ -L./../gzip -T /usr/lib/elf_x86_64_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -nostdlib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/crt0-efi-x86_64.o -znocombreloc -zdefs  apple.o config.o crc32.o driver_support.o gpt.o icns.o install.o launch_efi.o launch_legacy.o lib.o line_edit.o linux.o log.o main.o menu.o mystrings.o pointer.o scan.o screen.o \
|       -o refind_x64.so -leg -lmok -lEfiLib -lgzip -lefi -lgnuefi /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/libgcc.a
| /usr/bin/objcopy -j .text -j .sdata -j .data -j .dynamic -j .dynsym -j .rodata \
| 	   -j .rel -j .rela -j .rel.* -j .rela.* -j .rel* -j .rela* \
| 	   -j .reloc --strip-unneeded --target=efi-app-x86_64 refind_x64.so refind_x64.efi
| /usr/bin/objcopy: refind_x64.so: file format not recognized
| make[3]: *** [Makefile:53: refind_x64.efi] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/refind-0.14.2/refind'
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:89: gnuefi] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/refind-0.14.2'
| dh_auto_build: error: make -j1 gnuefi ARCH=x86_64 returned exit code 2
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:35: override_dh_auto_build] Error 255
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/refind-0.14.2'
| make: *** [debian/rules:28: binary] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

This looks like some part of the toolchain changed to me. The refind
version didn't change much.

Helmut

In case it helps, this is the output from debbisect:

bisection finished successfully
  last good timestamp: 20251125T023458Z
  first bad timestamp: 20251125T204144Z
the following packages differ between the last good and first bad timestamp:
  binutils 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  binutils-common:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  libbinutils:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  libctf-nobfd0:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  libctf0:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  libgprofng0:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1
  libselinux1:amd64 3.9-3 -> 3.9-4
  libsframe2:amd64 2.45-8 -> 2.45.50.20251125-1

[ There is also a debbisect mode to try individual packages after
  that, but I did not get the hang of it yet... ]

Thanks.

I was thinking about you *just* yesterday, Rod - you must've somehow
heard the goodwill I was throwing your direction! 😂

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/ci/cf542da4459ff18535b0ae3a7910af032834e469/
is awesome, thanks for your work!

I don't have a strong preference either way, but do you plan to do a
release soon, or would you rather I cherry-pick that into a patch and
backport it sooner to get it tested before you cycle through a
release?

♥,
- Tianon

PS. for what it's worth, Santiago narrowed it down even further than
2.45.50.20251209 to 2.45.50.20251125 👀

I'm sure the culprit is in
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=history;f=binutils/objcopy.c;h=ebd2a85c0f660793e91b6512c8f0adc9ea8eb9f2;hb=HEAD
somewhere, but I'm not finding it anything really obvious. 😅

From another, similar, EFI-build-failure bug:
[..]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=5e83077d552ed6f81dbc092eb3ccf827a43de42c

Best,
Chris

Sorry for the late reply; this message got buried. See inline below....

I don't know when I'll get around to doing another full rEFInd release,
so it's probably best that you merge that one FTBFS bug fix now. I do
have a couple more changes already merged in the Sourceforge git
repository, and more that I want to do, but I've been busy with other
things lately.

Can I do anything to help?
I want refind in Debian 14.

I think the next step is to copy Rod's commit into debian/patches/ and upload to sid.
Is there any other blocker here?