[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#570771: Bug#570771: FTBFS on mips* due to ld bug

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:24:39PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Package: octave3.2
> Version: 3.2.4-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Heya,
> 
> It looks like octave3.2 is hitting a ld bug:
> | g++ -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,liboctinterp.so -o liboctinterp.so [...]
> | /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol ceil(std::complex<float> const&)
> | /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
> | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> [From https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=octave3.2;ver=3.2.4-2;arch=mipsel;stamp=1266531285]
> 
> This seems to be due to a binutils bug in ld, filed here:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10144
> 
> It looks like building without -g might work around the problem, so removing
> the -dbg packages for mips* might be an option for now.

This is only an option if you (or one of the mipsel porters) agree to
sponsor the first upload re-introducing the -dbg package. I'm only a DM.

	Thomas