Re: m4 1.4.14 FTBFS on mips

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> Hello.
>
> I need help/advice regarding this.
>
> m4 FTBFS on the mips architecture:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=m4&ver=1.4.14-1&arch=mips&file=log
>
> gcc -std=gnu99  -g -Wall -O2   -o test-dup2 test-dup2.o libtests.a ../lib/libm4.a libtests.a  
> /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol dup2@@GLIBC_2.0
> /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
>
> It also fails on mipsel, with a similar error.

This is caused by this binutils bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519006

It happens for many packages that uses gnulib self-checks.  The binutils
bug is over a year old.  I have worked around the problem by disabling
self checks on mips(el)...

/Simon