Bug 98729 – splashutils-1.1.9.7 fails to link; undefined reference to 'boot_message'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joshua Ochs 2005-07-11 20:35:52 UTC]

After fully updating my system with "emerge world" (previously a 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 w/ splashutils 
1.1.9.5 system) to 2.6.12-gentoo-r4, I cannot emerge the latest splashutils (1.1.9.7), as it fails on 
linking, complaining about an undefined reference to 'boot_message'. Splashutils-1.1.9.6-r1 emerges 
fine, but does not appear to work, either generating bad initrd images or causing major errors in "make 
menuconfig" (see URL for details). I have not as of yet tried reverting to splashutils-1.1.9.5, but that will 
be my next step.

I have (of course) added the appropriate lines to packages.unmask and packages.keywords to gain 
access to the recent splashutils releases, since last I checked only the 0.9 series was officially available.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge splashutils

No, really, that's about it.

Actual Results:  
After compiling all of the various .o files, it appeared to fail on linking the final splashutils.o file (forgive 
my lack of familiarity with gcc).

Expected Results:  
Compiled/linked. The rest of the errors we'll sort out later.

(Reverted to 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 for the meantime; splashutils disabled)

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 
2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
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==
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/
qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa apm avi berkdb crypt cups emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm imlib ipv6 
jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png 
python quicktime readline samba spell ssl svga tcpd tiff vorbis xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux 
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-07-12 03:00:37 UTC]

Thanks for the bug report. I've got the issue fixed in my splashutils svn
repository. Until 1.1.9.7-r1 or 1.1.9.8 are released, try adding 'truetype' to
your USE flags -- this should make splashutils compile properly.

[Comment 2 Joshua Ochs 2005-07-12 07:44:00 UTC]

This solved the problem - thanks for the quick response! Should this be marked as "fixed" or not, since 
there is a workaround but the bug is still present?

[Comment 3 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-07-12 08:26:20 UTC]

I think it's better to leave it open until the next version of splashutils is
released and put into Portage.

[Comment 4 Mike 2005-07-18 05:58:30 UTC]

USE="truetype"  emerge  splashutils  
will allow the install

[Comment 5 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-07-18 13:27:29 UTC]

Fixed in 1.1.9.8.

[Comment 6 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-07-30 14:22:16 UTC]

*** Bug 100798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***