Re: mailutils/mips{,el} build failure

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Adam D. Barratt wrote:
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> 
> Hi,

Hi

> I'm looking at the failure of the mailutils package to build on mips and
> mipsel, as it's stalling the transition of krb5 to testing.
> 
> The build fails with the error below, which I believe is probably due to
> a lack of -fPIC somewhere in the build process. The question is, where,
> as our current attempts to add -fPIC to relevant places don't seem to
> have fixed the problem.
> 
> Is there any easy (or even logical) way of working out exactly where
> -fPIC is missing?

Unfortunately it's not enough to use -fPIC everywhere. It seems binutils
on mips is more picky and does not want to link when it finds multiple
different symbols with the same name where one is a weak symbol and the
other not...

> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link cc  -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2   -o muauth muauth.o ../libargp/libmuargp.a ../libcfg/libmucfg.la ../lib/libmuaux.la ../auth/libmuauth.la -lgsasl -lgnutls -lgcrypt -lldap -lpam -ldl ../mailbox/libmailutils.la -lcrypt -lresolv  -lpthread -lgdbm
> libtool: link: cc -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -o .libs/muauth muauth.o  ../libargp/libmuargp.a ../libcfg/.libs/libmucfg.so ../lib/.libs/libmuaux.a ../auth/.libs/libmuauth.so -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql /build/buildd/mailutils-2.0+dfsg1/mailbox/.libs/libmailutils.so /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so -lnsl -lm /usr/lib/libgsasl.so /usr/lib/libidn.so /usr/lib/libntlm.so -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libtasn1.so -lz /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so -lldap -lpam -ldl ../mailbox/.libs/libmailutils.so -lcrypt -lresolv -lpthread /usr/lib/libgdbm.so
> /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol mu_gsasl_module_data
> /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

so this probably means there are 2 different mu_gsasl_module_data
symbols in the code...

Cheers

Luk