Bug 600788 – net-fs/samba-4.2.14 fails to compile with ld.gold

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Lothian 2016-11-25 10:31:14 UTC]

Created attachment 454316 [details]
Samba build failure

The compilation fails with:

[2637/2782] Linking default/source3/smbd/smbd
default/source3/libsmbregistry-samba4.so: error: undefined reference to 'db_open'
default/source3/libsmbregistry-samba4.so: error: undefined reference to 'state_path'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Waf: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-4.2.14/work/samba-4.2.14-abi_x86_64.amd64/bin'
Build failed:  -> task failed (err #1):
        {task: cc_link epmd_28.o,lsasd_29.o,rpc_sock_helper_27.o,server_141.o -> smbd}
make: *** [Makefile:8: all] Error 1

This can be worked around by passing -fuse-ld=bfd to LDFLAGS

I think this might be related to binutils-2.17

[Comment 1 Mike Lothian 2016-11-25 10:35:18 UTC]

I've requested a new account at https://bugzilla.samba.org/createaccount-save.html I'll need to wait for that to be approved before reporting upstream

[Comment 2 Mike Lothian 2016-11-25 14:06:38 UTC]

Reported upstream https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12450

[Comment 3 Mike Lothian 2016-11-27 02:31:14 UTC]

I also tested with 4.5.1 and if failed too

[Comment 4 Steffen Hau 2017-03-13 16:17:35 UTC]

I used the patch from https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12450#c2 until 4.5.5. It looks like it was merged in 4.5.6 but the error is back in 4.5.6 despite the merged patch.

[Comment 5 Dennis Schridde 2018-07-13 05:34:27 UTC]

Quoting upstream's Andrew Bartlett's comment from 2018-07-12 22:15:17 UTC:
> Fixed in master by 4aa3a7f27548eda68f415a8f5bde013a7a9d58d4 for Samba 4.6.
> 
> Samba 4.5 is no longer supported so no backport will be done to these versions.

Source: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12450#c5