Installer fails to build on ppc64le with golang 1.17.12

Building the installer image started to fail on ppc64le

4.10.0

Always on the brew builders

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2022-11-14 11:55:00,819 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - + go build -mod=vendor -ldflags ' -X github.com/openshift/installer/pkg/version.Raw=v4.10.0 -X github.com/openshift/installer/pkg/version.Commit=4e8922c14379dce4845f362ac3a83ff80f1dc655 -X github.com/openshift/installer/pkg/version.defaultArch=ppc64le -s -w' -tags ' release' -o bin/openshift-install ./cmd/openshift-install
2022-11-14 11:58:01,556 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - # github.com/openshift/installer/cmd/openshift-install
2022-11-14 11:58:01,556 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go/services/cms.(*Client).DescribeMonitoringAgentHostsWithChan.func1: direct call too far: runtime.duffzero+1f0-tramp0 -20000e8

Successful build

This could potentially be a golang issue. After some preliminary investigation, we tried setting `-linkmode=external` in the ldflags which seems to allow the build to finish.
So while we investigate the real cause of the issue, changing the link mode will serve as a workaround to unblock the build pipeline.