On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 06:07:04PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> I don't have a problem with this if it fixes sparc.
> 
> Should the test be for any platform using ports-gcc or just sparc though?
>
> I am fine either way, please feel free to move this forward any way you 
> like and thanks for investigating it.

Thanks.

The problem is in the old base gas which lacks support for the "e"
sections used by lto. All ports-gcc platforms use the old binutils
from base, so it's the correct condition. I'd be surprised if any
other ports-gcc platform manages to build the dep chain to reach
py-matplotlib, though.