Bug 25748

Summary:	emerge prelink crashes after I've emerge system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael N. Mikhulya <mmihulya>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Stefan Jones (RETIRED) <cretin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	azarah, zsolt.botykai
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	prelink.patch

Description Michael N. Mikhulya 2003-08-02 02:21:52 UTC

I've emerged 'system' on [01-Aug-2003] with next use-flags:
....
sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1  +nls +pic -build -nptl
sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r1  -static +nls -bootstrap -java -build
sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.2  +nls -bootstrap -build
....

after that on attempt to emerge sys-devel/prelink-20030217 error occurs:

gcc -Wall -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o prelink
-static cache.o conflict.o cxx.o data.o doit.o dso.o dwarf2.o exec.o
execle_open.o fptr.o get.o gather.o hashtab.o layout.o main.o mdebug.o prelink.o
reloc.o space.o stabs.o undo.o undoall.o verify.o crc32.o arch-i386.o
arch-alpha.o arch-ppc.o arch-sparc.o arch-sparc64.o arch-x86_64.o arch-s390.o
arch-s390x.o arch-arm.o arch-sh.o arch-ia64.o  -lelf
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
prelink: hidden symbol `__libelf_version_initialized' isn't defined
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [prelink] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/prelink-20030217/work/prelink/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/prelink-20030217/work/prelink'
make: *** [all] Error 2

The same happens on attempt to emerge sys-devel/prelink-20030505.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ian Leitch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-02 14:50:11 UTC

OK, The prelink ebuild depends on elfutils and blocks libelf. Elftuils and libelf cannot be installed at the same time.
With elfutils installed prelink fails with the error you mentioned, with libelf however prelink compiles fine.

Prelink should depend on libelf and block elfutils.

Comment 2 Ian Leitch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-02 14:51:38 UTC

Created attachment 15394 [details, diff]
prelink.patch

Comment 3 Michael N. Mikhulya 2003-08-02 23:59:55 UTC

thanks, prelink was biult.

Problem "Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library" was raised with next libraries:
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so (ffmpeg-0.4.7_pre20030624)
/usr/lib/liblavfile-1.6.so.0 (mjpegtools-1.6.0-r7)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1 (xfree-4.3.0-r3)

And this message appears twice:
prelink: /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2/g++ is no longer hardlink to /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2/c++

I've rebuilt ffmpeg and mjpegtools, but it doesn't help me. I don't know can it be fixed or not. If it can't be fixed then probably it necessary to add note about it to "prelink-howto".

Comment 4 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-03 03:27:29 UTC

No the patch is wrong, elfutils is needed.
It is just that the most recent version of elfutils need to be used to fix the:

prelink: hidden symbol `__libelf_version_initialized' isn't defined

error. elfutils-0.76-r2 needs to be used.


The warnings you get in #3 I also get and can be ignored.

Stefan