Bug#217889: libc6-dev should conflict with old versions of binutils

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:20:27 -0500,
Brian Sammon wrote:
> When I had
>   ii  binutils       2.11.92.0.12.3-6
>   ii  libc6-dev      2.3.2-9
> I couldn't compile (link?) anything.  I got the following error:
> /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS): In function ~_libc_csu_init':
> elf-init.oS(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to ~_init_array_end'
> elf-init.oS(.text+0x23): undefined reference to ~_init_array_start'
> elf-init.oS(.text+0x43): undefined reference to ~_init_array_start'
> /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS): In function ~_libc_csu_fini':
> elf-init.oS(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to ~_fini_array_end'
> elf-init.oS(.text+0x80): undefined reference to ~_fini_array_start'
> elf-init.oS(.text+0xa3): undefined reference to ~_fini_array_start'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I believe that 2.11.92.0.12.3-6 is from an earlier release of woody.
> Upgrading binutils to the 2.12.90.0.1-4 (the latest from woody) made the 
> problem go away.
> 
> I don't fully understand the problem, so I didn't search the glibc changelog 
> to figure out where this was fixed, but it was somewhere between
> 2.11.92.0.12.3-6 and 2.12.90.0.1-4.

/usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a ?  Is this really used when you compile
"anything" like?:

	main() {}

Regards,
-- gotom