Bug 128605 – sys-devel/distcc --as-needed fix

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ben Skeggs 2006-04-02 23:36:57 UTC]

sys-devel/distcc-2.18.3-r7 fails to build with -Wl,--as-needed in LDFLAGS.

Patches on the way.

[Comment 1 Ben Skeggs 2006-04-02 23:38:35 UTC]

Created attachment 83786 [details, diff]
Fix library ordering in Makefile.in

[Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2006-04-02 23:39:06 UTC]

Created attachment 83787 [details, diff]
Patch to ebuild

[Comment 3 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2006-04-03 04:30:22 UTC]

Can you post emerge info too please and where the build fails.

[Comment 4 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2006-04-03 04:38:30 UTC]

Further(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=83786) [edit]
> Fix library ordering in Makefile.in
> 

What exactly does this patch do? How/In what way does it solve the problem?

[Comment 5 Ben Skeggs 2006-04-03 08:11:35 UTC]

See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml.  In particular, the section titled "The importance of linking order".

The patch just moves the distcc monitor object files *before* the libraries they link with.  When --as-needed is used, failure to do so will cause "missing symbol" errors.  But, the link I posted explains it better than I do.

[Comment 6 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) 2006-04-04 02:39:00 UTC]

This patch is only needed when the gnome useflag is in use

[Comment 7 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2006-04-15 09:11:23 UTC]

Sorry it took so long, I was waiting on feedback from another dev. Fixed in CVS.