On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:00 -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> 1) "It's known not to work on FreeBSD and probably does not work on other > >> non-Linux targets." > >> > >> 2) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502083 > >> > >> 3) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320697 > > But Debian is not BSD, it's a GNU/Linux distribution is it not? Also, > > No, Debian is not BSD. But we have this http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/: > > "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C > library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set." > > Now, as you can see at #502083 and #320697 the use of the flag has gotten > problems before. > > > I'm not too sure about the whole breaking-on-other-archs issue. I've got > > some packages with the ltmain.sh as needed patch, and -Wl,--as-needed in > > LDFLAGS, and they built on all the target architectures[1]. > > > > Well, I am not sure either because it is the first time I face this problem. > But, If I've read well in #502083 there says: > > "--as-needed is only used on arm and armel builds, while it should > be exactly opposite :( Incidentally it also shows that --as-needed is ok > for arm (but not for armel)." > > While in arm it was ok, in armel the use of --as-needed flag didn't work. So, > the use of such a flag could be _problematic_. > > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/geanyvc/0.4-0ubuntu1 > > Well, this package is not into Debian archive yet, there is only an ITP. I know > that Debian supports 12 architectures (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/) > while Ubuntu only supports 6 > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/installation-guide/i386/hardware-supported.html so > I think your argument about geanyvc does not apply at all for Debian. > Ah, my bad. Thanks for clarifying. Either way isn't that bug marked as fixed? Which would mean all the issues discussed in the bug are also fixed? -- Chow Loong Jin
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