From: Konstantin Demin <rockdrilla@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:47:11 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: package: binutils: deduplicate ld
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package: binutils: deduplicate ld

ld.bfd is the default/only implementation for now but things may change in future.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Demin <rockdrilla@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/21997
Signed-off-by: Nick Hainke <vincent@systemli.org>
---

diff --git a/package/devel/binutils/Makefile b/package/devel/binutils/Makefile
index 54b2ae8c8c1..8bd62d0f9b1 100644
--- a/package/devel/binutils/Makefile
+++ b/package/devel/binutils/Makefile
@@ -169,6 +169,23 @@ define Package/binutils/install
 	mv $(1)/usr/bin/strings $(1)/usr/bin/binutils-strings
 	rm -f $(1)/usr/bin/objdump
 	rm -f $(1)/usr/bin/ar
+
+	: # deduplicate "/usr/bin/ld.*":
+	: # "ld.bfd" is the implementation, "ld" is the variant selector,
+	: # so the link should be "ld" -> "ld.bfd"
+	_ld='$(1)/usr/bin/ld'; \
+	[ -f "$$$${_ld}" ] || exit 0; \
+	find "$$$${_ld%/*}/" -follow -name "$$$${_ld##*/}*" -type f \
+	| grep -Fxv -e "$$$${_ld}" | sort -V \
+	| while read -r _ld_variant; do \
+		cmp -s "$$$${_ld}" "$$$${_ld_variant}" || continue; \
+		cp -L "$$$${_ld_variant}" "$$$${_ld_variant}.new"; \
+		rm -f "$$$${_ld_variant}"; \
+		mv "$$$${_ld_variant}.new" "$$$${_ld_variant}"; \
+		rm -f "$$$${_ld}"; \
+		ln -s "$$$${_ld_variant##*/}" "$$$${_ld}"; \
+		break; \
+	done
 endef
 
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libbfd))