From eeaa171604b59d8ad3d86944ebf21ee758e92f95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul D. Weber" <x0bdev@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 21:33:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go: use lld on Android

Set linker explicitly to lld because the default does not work on NDK versions
20.0, 20.1, 21.0 and 21.1. NDK 17c (or earlier) based builds will need to
specify -fuse-ld=gold.

Fixes #38838
---
 src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
index 523a7992bb..707e664bd0 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/lib.go
@@ -1478,6 +1478,11 @@ func (ctxt *Link) hostlink() {
 		// from the beginning of the section (like sym.STYPE).
 		argv = append(argv, "-Wl,-znocopyreloc")
 
+		if objabi.GOOS == "android" {
+			// Use lld to avoid errors from default linker (issue #38838)
+			altLinker = "lld"
+		}
+
 		if ctxt.Arch.InFamily(sys.ARM, sys.ARM64) && objabi.GOOS == "linux" {
 			// On ARM, the GNU linker will generate COPY relocations
 			// even with -znocopyreloc set.