Bug 367877 – net-libs/gnet fails because of underlinking

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2011-05-18 01:23:11 UTC]

Created attachment 273783 [details]
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Hello there!

You're getting this bug because the package in Summary failed to build in my tinderbox using the gold link editor from binutils. Before closing the bug as INVALID let me explain why this is still important!

The gold link editor does not support underlinking of shared objects, which is something I have described in my blog post:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/11/26/it-s-not-all-gold-that-shines-why-underlinking-is-a-bad-thing

Even the basic link editor (ld.bfd) has an option to support this but it is a heck to enable and get passed, so linking with gold is simply quicker.

Fixing underlinking provides optimized --as-needed builds (because the "softer" version no longer need to recover libraries that are underlinked), so it is a Good Thing To Do.

Thank you very much for the attention!

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-03-09 17:03:00 UTC]

You can simply fix this by running eautoreconf so that examples/xmlrpc/Makefile.in is redone.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2012-03-09 19:56:52 UTC]

Didn't know that :-O

Feel free to commit if you have time (I don't know :( )

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-03-10 05:44:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Didn't know that :-O
> 
> Feel free to commit if you have time (I don't know :( )

I don't know what to commit. When I add eautoreconf, some eclass or other complains about elibtoolize having being run already, and I am not really sure how that's supposed to be fixed.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2012-03-10 08:27:14 UTC]

Moving gnome_src_prepare to the last at src_prepare phase will solve it ;)

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-03-10 18:55:15 UTC]

Fixed without a revision bump, then.