Re: linker related changes for wheezy
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Fernando Lemos <fernandotcl@gmail.com> wrote:
> In situations like this, what can package maintainers do? Would adding
> -Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries to the build script be acceptable and
> would gold support that flag too? Should the bugs be assigned to the
> libraries instead (Boost and others)? There's no way this can be
> considered a bug in the packages that use such libraries, it makes no
> sense.
As it turns out, -Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries isn't supported by gold
(yay). The patch Roger Leigh posted to the Boost bugtracker seems to
have been ignored[1], but I'm glad that there's been some discussion
between Roger and the Boost maintainers[2]. Hopefully this will be
sorted out in the future.
I'm not sure what other Boost-based package maintainers are doing. I
suspect they're just working around the problem by linking to the
missing libraries. I do not plan to do this with btag (unless it's
required in the near future for whatever reason), though I've patched
upstream for convenience. If we get pkg-config support, I'll adapt
btag's build system upstream and the Debian package as well.
Regards,
[1]: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1094
[2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248674
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