Re: RFS: syx

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:57:03PM -0500, Luca Bruno wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:53:28 +0200
> "Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning:
> > >> debian/syx-gtk/usr/lib/syx/gtk/libsyx-gtk.so.0.0.0 shouldn't be linked
> > >> with libgthread-2.0.so.0 (it uses none of its symbols).
> > 
> > I've fixed this in the past with LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs,--as-needed",
> > but then here the package FTBFS. It seems the -Bsymbolic-functions
> > flag is currently necessary. Perhaps someone here with more expertise
> > than I have can advise how to fix this warning.
> > 
> 
> I've tried with -Wl,--as-needed (-z defs will give compilation errors).
> The result is the same.
> objdump -x debian/tmp/usr/lib/syx/gtk/libsyx-gtk.so|grep NEEDED
>   NEEDED      libgthread-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      librt.so.1
>   NEEDED      libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libatk-1.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libm.so.6
>   NEEDED      libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libpango-1.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libcairo.so.2
>   NEEDED      libgobject-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libgmodule-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libdl.so.2
>   NEEDED      libglib-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED      libpthread.so.0
>   NEEDED      libc.so.6

I bet this thing builds using libtool, right ? libtool is known to be
reordering gcc arguments, and with -Wl,--as-needed, that breaks
everything, as it puts it at the end, making it useless.

Mike