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[llvm-objcopy] error: section cannot be removed because it is referenced #148

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llvm-objcopy is stricter than the GNUs objcopy:

.dynstr:

$ ninja -C build
...
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/fwupd-efi-1.7/temp/python3.13/bin/python3 ../fwupd-efi-1.7/efi/generate_binary.py efi/fwup.so efi/fwupdaa64.efi --arch aarch64 --os linux --objcopy /usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy --genpeimg '' --objcopy-manualsymbols
FAILED: efi/fwupdaa64.efi 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/fwupd-efi-1.7/temp/python3.13/bin/python3 ../fwupd-efi-1.7/efi/generate_binary.py efi/fwup.so efi/fwupdaa64.efi --arch aarch64 --os linux --objcopy /usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy --genpeimg '' --objcopy-manualsymbols
/usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy: error: 'efi/fwup.so': section '.dynstr' cannot be removed because it is referenced by the section '.dynamic'

.dynsym:

$ ninja -C build
...
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/fwupd-efi-1.7/temp/python3.13/bin/python3 ../fwupd-efi-1.7/efi/generate_binary.py efi/fwup.so efi/fwupdaa64.efi --arch aarch64 --os linux --objcopy /usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy --genpeimg '' --objcopy-manualsymbols
FAILED: efi/fwupdaa64.efi 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/fwupd-efi-1.7/temp/python3.13/bin/python3 ../fwupd-efi-1.7/efi/generate_binary.py efi/fwup.so efi/fwupdaa64.efi --arch aarch64 --os linux --objcopy /usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy --genpeimg '' --objcopy-manualsymbols
/usr/lib/llvm/20/bin/llvm-objcopy: error: 'efi/fwup.so': symbol table '.dynsym' cannot be removed because it is referenced by the relocation section '.rela'

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