--- /dev/null
+http://bugs.gentoo.org/392645
+http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13470
+
+2011-12-03 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+ PR ld/13470
+ * elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_copy_indirect_symbol): Revert substantive
+ change in 2011-07-01 commit. Comment.
+ * elf64-ppc.c (ppc64_elf_copy_indirect_symbol): Likewise.
+
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/elf32-ppc.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.302.2.1
+retrieving revision 1.302.2.2
+diff -u -r1.302.2.1 -r1.302.2.2
+--- src/bfd/elf32-ppc.c 2011/11/15 11:36:52 1.302.2.1
++++ src/bfd/elf32-ppc.c 2011/12/03 00:58:01 1.302.2.2
+@@ -2987,10 +2987,6 @@
+ edir->elf.needs_plt |= eind->elf.needs_plt;
+ edir->elf.pointer_equality_needed |= eind->elf.pointer_equality_needed;
+
+- /* If we were called to copy over info for a weak sym, that's all. */
+- if (eind->elf.root.type != bfd_link_hash_indirect)
+- return;
+-
+ if (eind->dyn_relocs != NULL)
+ {
+ if (edir->dyn_relocs != NULL)
+@@ -3022,6 +3018,16 @@
+ eind->dyn_relocs = NULL;
+ }
+
++ /* If we were called to copy over info for a weak sym, that's all.
++ You might think dyn_relocs need not be copied over; After all,
++ both syms will be dynamic or both non-dynamic so we're just
++ moving reloc accounting around. However, ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS
++ code in ppc_elf_adjust_dynamic_symbol needs to check for
++ dyn_relocs in read-only sections, and it does so on what is the
++ DIR sym here. */
++ if (eind->elf.root.type != bfd_link_hash_indirect)
++ return;
++
+ /* Copy over the GOT refcount entries that we may have already seen to
+ the symbol which just became indirect. */
+ edir->elf.got.refcount += eind->elf.got.refcount;
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/elf64-ppc.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.363.2.4
+retrieving revision 1.363.2.5
+diff -u -r1.363.2.4 -r1.363.2.5
+--- src/bfd/elf64-ppc.c 2011/11/08 13:46:36 1.363.2.4
++++ src/bfd/elf64-ppc.c 2011/12/03 00:58:02 1.363.2.5
+@@ -4435,10 +4435,6 @@
+ edir->elf.ref_regular_nonweak |= eind->elf.ref_regular_nonweak;
+ edir->elf.needs_plt |= eind->elf.needs_plt;
+
+- /* If we were called to copy over info for a weak sym, that's all. */
+- if (eind->elf.root.type != bfd_link_hash_indirect)
+- return;
+-
+ /* Copy over any dynamic relocs we may have on the indirect sym. */
+ if (eind->dyn_relocs != NULL)
+ {
+@@ -4471,6 +4467,16 @@
+ eind->dyn_relocs = NULL;
+ }
+
++ /* If we were called to copy over info for a weak sym, that's all.
++ You might think dyn_relocs need not be copied over; After all,
++ both syms will be dynamic or both non-dynamic so we're just
++ moving reloc accounting around. However, ELIMINATE_COPY_RELOCS
++ code in ppc64_elf_adjust_dynamic_symbol needs to check for
++ dyn_relocs in read-only sections, and it does so on what is the
++ DIR sym here. */
++ if (eind->elf.root.type != bfd_link_hash_indirect)
++ return;
++
+ /* Copy over got entries that we may have already seen to the
+ symbol which just became indirect. */
+ if (eind->elf.got.glist != NULL)