Re: Bug#226509: apt: FTBFS when configured with --disable-nls

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > > bash-2.05b# apt-get -o APT::System="Debian dpkg interface"
> > > E: Packaging system 'Debian dpkg interface' is not supported
>  
> > "apt-get --version" will tell you which packaging systems, if any, were
> > compiled in.  Perhaps there was another problem with the build which was
> > overlooked.
> 
> A silly linker trick is used to link in packaging systems that get
> compiled. This doesn't work with static libraries.. You need to explicitly
> reference the initialization instances to get the linker to link them.

Ugh, I worked around it and used shared libraries instead.  At least it
works and runs, but I haven't really tested much else yet.

I just used this in environment.mak:

SONAME_MAGIC=-Wl,-h -Wl

Solaris 8, gcc-3.3 configured to use /usr/ccs/bin/ld

-- 
Eric Wong