Re: binutils-gold and symbols files

[Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> As I received a couple of bug reports today about packages FTBFS, I
>  installed binutils-gold and tried to compile a few of my packages with it.
> 
> What I noticed is, that every package with symbols file, produced a lintian
> error, as binutils-gold added new symbols, the most common one was
> end@base
> 
> What's the reason for those additional symbol(s) with binutils-gold?
This is an open problem reported as #553435 (see also forwarded bug). I 
haven't received any updates to this problem(?) yet. I will post information 
about that inside the bug report if I receive anything useful from the author.

Best regards,
	Peter