The NVidia driver silently fails to build when using the mold linker:

# ll /etc/alternatives/ld 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 11 avril 01:02 /etc/alternatives/ld ->
/usr/bin/ld.mold


mold: fatal: scripts/module.lds:1: SECTIONS {
                            ^ unknown linker script token
mold: fatal: scripts/module.lds:1: SECTIONS {
                            ^ unknown linker script token
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56:
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.67-default/nvidia-uvm.ko] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mold: fatal: scripts/module.lds:1: SECTIONS {
                            ^ unknown linker script token
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56:
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.67-default/nvidia-drm.ko] Error 1
mold: fatal: scripts/module.lds:1: SECTIONS {
                            ^ unknown linker script token
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56:
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.67-default/nvidia-peermem.ko] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56:
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.67-default/nvidia.ko] Error 1
mold: fatal: scripts/module.lds:1: SECTIONS {
                            ^ unknown linker script token
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:56:
/usr/src/kernel-modules/nvidia-550.67-default/nvidia-modeset.ko] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/Makefile:1871: modules] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1/Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-6.8.7-1'
make: *** [Makefile:85: modules] Error 2

Bug ID	1223344
Summary	NVidia driver fails to link when using mold
Classification	openSUSE
Product	openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version	Current
Hardware	Other
OS	Other
Status	NEW
Severity	Normal
Priority	P5 - None
Component	X11 Applications
Assignee	screening-team-bugs@suse.de
Reporter	christophe@krop.fr
QA Contact	qa-bugs@suse.de
Target Milestone	---
Found By	---
Blocker	---