Bug 279655

Summary:	sci-visualization/fig2sxd: fails tests with forced --as-needed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) <markusle>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA	CC:	sci
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	129413
Attachments:	Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-30 11:39:32 UTC

I'm reporting this bug because the package in summary fails to build when forcing --as-needed on through spec files (check out http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/11/14/problems-and-mitigation-strategies-for-as-needed for details).

Please note that this bug _might_ apply to -Wl,--as-needed in LDFLAGS as well; in both cases it should be fixed. Also, if this is due to the package in question not respecting user-defined LDFLAGS, you should get to fix that too.

Check the attached build log.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-30 11:40:09 UTC

Created attachment 199639 [details]
Build log

Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-26 18:53:47 UTC

Hey Markus, since this was your "baby" originally and you were the last one to touch it, maybe you would like to take official maintainership (and this bug) :-)?

Comment 3 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-01 00:08:21 UTC

Sure - I'll take over and will have a look at the issue.

Thanks,
Markus

Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-01 02:38:18 UTC

I had a closer look at this bug and the failing tests
have nothing to do with as-needed AFAICT. This
package actually has no tests but unfortunately a bunch of 
C++ template code in a file called check.cpp which is
not a phony target. Hence a "make check" will try to build
this file which of course bombs. 

In any case I've bumped the package, made check a phony 
target, and made it respect LDFLAGS as well.

Best,
Markus