Bug 468522 – x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.5.0: undefined reference to symbol 'g_module_symbol'

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ted Tanberry 2013-05-03 20:55:15 UTC]

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: engines.o: undefined reference to symbol 'g_module_symbol'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: note: 'g_module_symbol' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

Your usual underlinking issue with binutils-2.23.2. I've fixed the build system as I don't want to use any >x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.5.0. As the change to configure.ac requires a run of autoreconf, I needed to add gnome-base/gnome-common to the DEPENDency list.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Ted Tanberry 2013-05-03 20:56:02 UTC]

--- /usr/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon/notification-daemon-0.5.0.ebuild	2012-01-28 03:17:07.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon/notification-daemon-0.5.0.ebuild	2013-05-03 22:39:40.963048440 +0200
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 GCONF_DEBUG=no
 GNOME2_LA_PUNT=yes
 
-inherit eutils gnome2
+inherit eutils gnome2 autotools
 
 DESCRIPTION="Notification daemon"
 HOMEPAGE="http://git.gnome.org/browse/notification-daemon/"
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 	!x11-misc/qtnotifydaemon"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	>=dev-util/intltool-0.40
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.14"
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.14
+	gnome-base/gnome-common"
 
 pkg_setup() {
 	DOCS="AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS"
@@ -38,5 +39,8 @@
 
 src_prepare() {
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-libnotify-0.7.patch
-	gnome2_src_prepare
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-underlinking.patch
+
+	gnome2_omf_fix
+	eautoreconf
 }

[Comment 2 Ted Tanberry 2013-05-03 20:56:41 UTC]

Created attachment 347312 [details, diff]
notification-daemon-0.5.0-underlinking.patch

[Comment 3 Oschtan 2013-09-25 21:10:31 UTC]

Thx. It's work :-)

[Comment 4 wrdyanf 2014-03-04 12:36:41 UTC]

notification-daemon-0.5.0-underlinking.patch
don't work on ARM arch.

engines.o: undefined reference to symbol 'g_module_close'
/usr/lib/gcc/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.7.3/../../../../armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: note: 'g_module_close' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2014-03-04 12:58:05 UTC]

(In reply to wrdyanf from comment #4)
> notification-daemon-0.5.0-underlinking.patch
> don't work on ARM arch.
> 
> engines.o: undefined reference to symbol 'g_module_close'
> /usr/lib/gcc/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.7.3/../../../../armv7a-
> hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: note: 'g_module_close' is defined in DSO
> /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
> /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

that's quite an claim without an attached build.log. did you remember to run eautoreconf after patching configure.ac?
if it still doesn't work after eautoreconf, to generate new configure from the patched configure.ac, then attach build.log so we can figure out why

[Comment 6 Andrius Štikonas 2014-06-01 21:07:59 UTC]

The patch works on arm provided that inherit autotools is added.

Is there any reason why this is not committed to portage?

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2014-06-02 17:54:53 UTC]

(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #6)
> The patch works on arm provided that inherit autotools is added.
> 
> Is there any reason why this is not committed to portage?

no other reason that 0.5.0 is deprecated version, overshadowed by KEYWORDS of 0.7.x series, so most focus goes to the newer versions

0.5.0 is left behind because, in my opinion, upstream ruined the daemon in 0.7.x series :-)

applied the patch to portage now. sorry for delay.