Bug 379591

Summary:	media-gfx/xsvg fails because of underlinking
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	kensington, mlspamcb
Priority:	Highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	372079
Attachments:	Build log xsvg-0.2.1-build.patch xsvg-0.2.1-ebuild.patch working patch

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-17 17:11:18 UTC

Created attachment 283671 [details]
Build log

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 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2011-12-15 14:51:00 UTC

Created attachment 295931 [details, diff]
xsvg-0.2.1-build.patch

Updated asneeded patch to include required libs to solve underlinking.

Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2011-12-15 14:54:33 UTC

Created attachment 295933 [details, diff]
xsvg-0.2.1-ebuild.patch

Updated ebuild bumping EAPI and fixing deps: xsvg links against libX11 and libXrender, and uses headers from libXcursor and xproto.

Comment 3 Nico Baggus 2014-05-15 23:51:47 UTC

this one still fails to build unless

LDFLAGS="-lXrender -lX11" emerge -1 xsvg \

is used

Comment 4 David Haller 2015-09-19 06:25:13 UTC

Created attachment 412230 [details, diff]
working patch

I could build it cleanly with this patch.

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-10-01 07:28:17 UTC

removed