Bug 226887

Summary:	dev-libs/libxml: append-ldflags is used to pass libraries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	robbat2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	226863

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-14 18:13:20 UTC

I've made append-ldflags throw a warning when libraries are passed through it
to link them in.

The reason is that LDFLAGS should _not_ be used for libraries, as it has to be
positioned before the list of objects to link together, while libraries should
go after.

This mistake in commandline is what causes as-needed to either fail or not
apply at all (if LDFLAGS are put at the end).

Please fix your package not to pass libraries through LDFLAGS.

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2008-06-15 08:33:40 UTC

dev-libs/libxml is deprecated, so it would be nice if we could phase this out. The following packages seem to still depend on it:

app-admin/prelude-manager:xml
games-util/loki_setupdb
media-sound/glame
media-sound/terminatorx
net-print/omni

glame has dependencies on both libxml and libxml2, so that seems fishy, perhaps the libxml dependency is no longer needed there. The latest version of omni has been ported to use libxml2.

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2008-09-13 03:00:44 UTC

Feel free to motivate the phase out.. Until that happens, treecleaner@g.o doesn't need to be on this bug.

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2008-10-14 09:24:41 UTC

I just fixed it for now.