gold and -flto always fails with an internal error on arm-linux-gnueabi*

Upstream fix committed here:

commit f35c4853cc5b0e51d8a460be390f7a20cd44ba44
Author: Cary Coutant <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jul 7 10:14:45 2014 -0700

    Fix internal error with LTO on ARM.

    This prevents the target-specific do_read_symbols methods from being called
    twice when do_layout_deferred_sections needs to layout an .eh_frame section.

    gold/
        PR gold/15639
        * dynobj.h (Sized_dynobj::base_read_symbols): New method.
        * dynobj.cc (Sized_dynobj::do_read_symbols): Move body to...
        (Sized_dynobj::base_read_symbols): ...new method.
        * object.h (Sized_relobj_file::base_read_symbols): New method.
        * object.cc (Sized_relobj_file::do_read_symbols): Move body to...
        (Sized_relobj_file::base_read_symbols): ...new method.
        * arm.cc (Arm_relobj::do_read_symbols): Call base_read_symbols.
        * mips.cc: (Mips_relobj::do_read_symbols): Likewise.
        * powerpc.cc (Powerpc_dynobj::do_read_symbols): Likewise.

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.24.51.20140709-1ubuntu1

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binutils (2.24.51.20140709-1ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian, remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.

binutils (2.24.51.20140709-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Snapshot, taken from the trunk 20140709.
    - Fix PR gold/15639, -flto and ld.gold on ARM.
      Closes: #712189. LP: #1191909.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:00:32 +0200

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

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fixed in trusty-proposed

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.24-5ubuntu13

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binutils (2.24-5ubuntu13) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU LP: #1311866.
  * Update from the 2.24 branch, 20141113.
    - Fix PR gold/16945, properly handle 64-bit GOT relocations on x86_64.
    - Fix PR gold/16900, an issue where first reserved word of GOT is not
      initialized if there is no PLT.
    - gold: Fix handling of __ehdr_start when it cannot be defined.
    - Apply mainline patches for ppc476 workaround.
    - Add binutils test cases for AArch64.
    - Disassembler fix on AArch64.
    - Fix PR ld/17047, crash in the bfd linker with MALLOC_PERTURB.
    - Fix PR ld/17277, ARM32, bogus DT_TEXTREL marker (and R_ARM_NONE)
      for PC-relative cross-section relocs.
    - [AArch64] Cortex-A53 erratum 835769 linker workaround.
  * Remove the aarch64-fix-instruction-mask, applied on the branch.
  * Fix PR gold/15639, -flto and ld.gold on ARM. LP: #1191909.
  * Use 64k for COMMONPAGESIZE on PPC. LP: #1412553.
  * Fix PR ld/16452, PR ld/16457, don't output symbol version definitions
    for non-DT_NEEDED. LP: #1248642.
  * Add powerpc target for ppc64el builds. Closes: #760395. LP: #1433238.
  * binutils-doc: Include all info files. LP: #1410780.
  * Fix PR ld/16715 (ARM), set st_value to zero for undefined symbols.
    LP: #1441961.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:52:45 +0200

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