Bug 370327

Summary:	media-gfx/wally fails because of underlinking
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	desktop-misc, qt
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	406405
Bug Blocks:	372079
Attachments:	Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-06-06 20:10:37 UTC

Created attachment 276047 [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 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-01 14:58:09 UTC

Just for the record, bug 406405 which this bug now depends on, has a patch:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=303817

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-11 10:38:52 UTC

Fixed in 2.4.4