Bug#744257: attica: FTBFS on arm64 (symbols issue)
+++ Pino Toscano [2014-04-12 09:08 +0200]:
> On 2014-04-12 02:46, Wookey wrote:
> >Even with the updated kde-pkg-tools patch from
> >
> >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=23;filename=pkg-kde-tools_0.15.13.arm64-subst-fix-2.patch;att=1;bug=744173
> >,
> >
> >this package doesn't build on arm64, because these two symbols are
> >missing from the generated file:
> > (optional=gccinternal)_ZN6Attica19DownloadDescription7PrivateD1Ev@Base
> >0.4.0
> > (optional=gccinternal)_ZN6Attica19DownloadDescription7PrivateD2Ev@Base
> >0.4.0
> >
> >I don't know what that "(optional=gccinternal)" annotation means,
> >although it saying 'optional' suggests to me that having it missing
> >shouldn't fail the build, but it does.
>
> (optional=gccinternal) means a symbol is optional, so its lack won't
> cause a build failure. See also dpkg-gensymbols(1).
Right. Something else must have caused the build to fail. It does
indeed complain about the above but actually complete the build now.
> >It can be fixed with the attached patch to declare that these are not
> >present on arm64. I don't know if this is the right fix, or if there
> >is some other reason for these symbols being missing which we should
> >look into?
>
> The patch is indeed wrong, and should not be applied.
>
> If you want more help on the issue, please do post a full build log.
Well, given that I can now build the unpatched source, I think this
bug should just be closed. From my POV this builds OK, and presumably
is correct as it stands? Ah yes. I see that other arches spit out this
whinge so I guess that's OK.
Wookey
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