Bug 101732 – libperl-5.8.6-r1 fails to build with a link error on every build attempt

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Chronister 2005-08-08 04:59:54 UTC]

If an emerge of either perl or libperl is attempted the result is a link error.
 This bug is very similar to bug #83946.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1./usr/bin/emerge perl
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o libperl.so.1.5.8 -L/usr/local/lib perl.o malloc.o gv.o
toke.o perly.o op.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o hv.o av.o run.o
pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o
taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o locale.o
pp_pack.o pp_sort.o  -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lbsd  -Wl,-soname
-Wl,libperl.so.`echo libperl.so.1.5.8 | cut -d. -f3`
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../Scrt1.o(.text+0x28):
In function `_start':
: undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libperl.so.1.5.8] Error 1



# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.11-hardened-r14 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r14-=chronister=- i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 27 2005, 05:24:05)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.6.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains
/var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caps crypt cscope curl dlloader flash
gdbm hardened hardenedphp imap innodb ipv6 jpeg libwww maildir mysql mysqli
ncurses nls pam perl php pic png profile python readline ssl sysvipc tcpd
threads tiff truetype userlocales vhosts x86 xml xml2 zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-08 05:02:51 UTC]

*** Bug 101733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2005-08-08 05:17:26 UTC]

I'm not sure why this is assigned to hardened. 

But it's pretty clear what the problem here is. 
Your not passing the -shared option to linker to tell ld it is linking for a 
shared object without the standard *crt*.o files.

[Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) 2006-01-06 07:18:01 UTC]

Reassigning to perl@

perl@ this one seems invalid to me.

[Comment 4 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2006-01-11 02:45:14 UTC]

i'm going to have to concur with solar on this one