Bug 369043

Summary:	=net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.2.9 - gdc.c:28: error: undefined reference to 'gdFontGiant'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	slyfox, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Deadline:	2019-04-15
Attachments:	Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-28 16:45:17 UTC

Created attachment 274911 [details]
Build log

Hello there!

You're getting this bug because the package in Summary failed to build in my tinderbox using the gold link editor from binutils. Before closing the bug as INVALID let me explain why this is still important!

The gold link editor does not support underlinking of shared objects, which is something I have described in my blog post:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/11/26/it-s-not-all-gold-that-shines-why-underlinking-is-a-bad-thing

Even the basic link editor (ld.bfd) has an option to support this but it is a heck to enable and get passed, so linking with gold is simply quicker.

Fixing underlinking provides optimized --as-needed builds (because the "softer" version no longer need to recover libraries that are underlinked), so it is a Good Thing To Do.

Thank you very much for the attention!

Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-08-27 14:41:43 UTC

[i can't reproduce the problem locally]

nessus-core does not link against external libgd but bundles gd1.3 internally.

The link command looks fine:

    i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu auth.o comm.o sighand.o xstuff.o cli.o parser.o plugin_infos.o preferences.o families.o attack.o report.o report_ng.o report_save.o report_utils.o nsr_output.o nbe_output.o html_output.o latex_output.o text_output.o xml_output.o xml_output_ng.o html_graph_output.o error_dialog.o password_dialog.o monitor_dialog.o backend.o data_mining.o prefs_dialog.o prefs_dialog_misc.o prefs_dialog_scan_opt.o prefs_dialog_user.o prefs_dialog_auth.o prefs_dialog_plugins_prefs.o prefs_plugins.o prefs_target.o prefs_about.o prefs_kb.o netmap.o detached_index.o read_target_file.o gdchart0.94b/gdc.o gdchart0.94b/price_conv.o gdchart0.94b/gdc_pie.o gdchart0.94b/gdchart.o regex.o filter.o dirutils.o sslui.o nessus.o    -o nessus `/usr/bin/nessus-config --libs`       gdchart0.94b/gd1.3/libgd.a -lm  
    gdc.c:28: error: undefined reference to 'gdFontGiant'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Perhaps it breaks if `/usr/bin/nessus-config --libs` cnotains external libgd as well?

Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-06-22 07:08:22 UTC

net-analyzer/nessus-core is gone from the tree