Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc
stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers) writes:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:17:45PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > > Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a
> > > > > missing symbol?
> > > >
> > > > Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on
> > > > so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared
> > > > when recompiling the faulty binaries against the proper versions of
> > > > libraries so far.
> > >
> > > If I read between the lines right, this time it was breakage in brltty
> > > on sparc, and I've removed it from the pkg-lists for sparc now.
> >
> > Does that mean we can close the bug?
>
> Please see attached patch.
>
> >
> > --
> > Falk
>
> Geert Stappers
>
> diff -ur mklibs-0.1.12/debian/changelog mklibs-patched/debian/changelog
> --- mklibs-0.1.12/debian/changelog 2003-08-28 12:18:10.000000000 +0000
> +++ mklibs-patched/debian/changelog 2003-11-13 09:55:30.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +mklibs (0.1.12.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> +
> + * Geert Stappers
> + - Give tidy error on not found non-weak symbol;
> + not a backtrace dump (closes: #211092, #219928)
> +
> + -- Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:36:48 +0000
> +
> mklibs (0.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Alastair McKinstry
> diff -ur mklibs-0.1.12/mklibs.py mklibs-patched/mklibs.py
> --- mklibs-0.1.12/mklibs.py 2003-08-28 12:19:28.000000000 +0000
> +++ mklibs-patched/mklibs.py 2003-11-13 09:57:33.000000000 +0000
> @@ -466,7 +466,8 @@
> for (symbol, is_weak) in needed_symbols.elems():
> if not symbol_provider.has_key(symbol):
> if not is_weak:
> - raise "No library provides non-weak " + symbol
> + print >> sys.stderr,"No library provides non-weak " + symbol
> + sys.exit(1)
> else:
> lib = symbol_provider[symbol]
> library_symbols_used[lib].add(symbol)
That might give a nicer looking error but doesn't affect the problem.
If brltty is used on d-i we need to add an option to keep some weak
symbols as a workaround to the reverse linking used.
MfG
Goswin
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