Re: reporting a bug
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:29:32AM -0500, Francis Lau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new at Debian so please bare with me. I was trying to install
> wu-ftp on a machine and the following message popped up:
You do know there's a debian package of wu-ftpd, right? I'll skip
my usual rant regarding the FTP protocol :-)
> setup4:/usr/local/src/wu-ftpd-2.6.2/src# make
> gcc -g -O2 -o ftpd COPYRIGHT.o vers.o ftpd.o ftpcmd.o glob.o logwtmp.o
> popen.o access.o extensions.o realpath.o acl.o private.o authenticate.o
> conversions.o rdservers.o paths.o hostacc.o sigfix.o auth.o routevector.o
> restrict.o domain.o wu_fnmatch.o timeout.o getpwnam.o -L../support -lcrypt
> -lnsl -lresolv -lsupport /local/imap/libsshadow.a -lgdbm -lgdbm_compat
> /usr/bin/ld: ../support/libsupport.a(strcasestr.o)(.text+0x14):
> unresolvable relocation against symbol `strlen@@GLIBC_2.0'
> /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.12.90.0.1 20020307 Debian/GNU Linux internal error,
> aborting at ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c line 1887 in elf_i386_relocate_section
>
> /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [ftpd] Error 1
>
> Can anyone please advise me on how to report the bug? I went on the
> Debian BTS and tried to search for it, but it requires a bug by number
> (which i don't have) or package name (which i don't know how to find).
nnorman@lorien:~ $ which ld
/usr/bin/ld
nnorman@lorien:~ $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ld
binutils: /usr/bin/ld
Looks like you should "bug" the maintainer of binutils.
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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