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Bug 369637 - x11-misc/nitrogen fails because of underlinking
Summary: x11-misc/nitrogen fails because of underlinking
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Desktop Misc. Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 431882 498938 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: underlinking
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Reported: 2011-06-01 11:48 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2014-01-22 16:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Build log (nitrogen-1.5.1:20110601-094001.log,22.20 KB, text/plain)
2011-06-01 11:48 UTC, Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-01 11:48:09 UTC
Created attachment 275473 [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 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-12 01:17:46 UTC
*** Bug 431882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-12 01:17:57 UTC
  18 Aug 2012; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> nitrogen-1.5.2.ebuild,
  +files/nitrogen-1.5.2-gold.patch:
  Fix building with the gold linker (bug #431882).
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-22 16:05:34 UTC
*** Bug 498938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***