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). Check the attached build log. Thanks, Diego
Created attachment 172682 [details] Build log
Created attachment 179708 [details, diff] Patch to vnstat ebuild to add sed calls to fix Makefile issues The upstream Makefile exhibits two flaws. First, as Diego found, it does not link correctly under --as-needed because -lm is passed too early in the link line. Second, it does not respect user LDFLAGS, so this cannot be caught in normal /etc/make.conf --as-needed usage. This patch adds a src_unpack function to the ebuild and uses sed to fix up the upstream Makefile. The sed expressions delete the explicit rules and set LDLIBS to -lm so that the implicit link rule works as desired.
Thanks Kevin, but it seems like this is fixed with 1.7 version.
Good enough. 1.7 had not hit the tree when I posted the original fix, and is still not in stable. I assume that this type of build failure is not worth expediting a stable request, right?
