gccgo: running gcc failed: Can't build

[tsirolnik]

1. What version of Go are you using (go version)?
   go version1.5.1 linux/amd64
2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
   amd64 linux (debian stretch) running on vmware
3. What did you do?
   I've just tried to build my app using go build .
4. What did you expect to see?
   Compiled program
5. What did you see instead?

/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/link: running gcc failed: exit status 1
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section '.init'
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I've tried rebooting, upgrading and etc but nothing works

[ianlancetaylor]

This is not a gccgo problem. This is a variant of #13114 . Your system linker (/usr/bin/ld) is not up to date with your compiler/assembler. It's not a Go problem at all.

[sjackman]

Upgrading binutils (for /usr/bin/ld) did not help. Setting CGO_ENABLED=0 did help. See Linuxbrew/legacy-linuxbrew#1057