Bug#719806: lintian: Change in binutils produce E: library-not-linked-against-libc for C++ compiled with -Wl, --as-needed
On 2013-08-15 15:58, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.15
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> After the binutils 2.23.52.20130612-1 entered the archive lots of C++ programs
> that don't explicitly use the libc produce:
> E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> messages. This issue was first reported to binutils in #712081, but the
> upstream developers claim its working as intended (when only weak symbols are
> used there is no strict dependency).
>
Do you have a reference to upstream's claim for reference?
> I'm no expert in this area, but I think that either the lintian error is
> wrong or the issue needs a more deep discussion/approach.
>
Not a huge expert either.
> It's likely that the lintian test needs to be improved to take into account
> weak symbols, but this might be not trivial.
>
> [...]
>
>
Quite possible.
~Niels
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