tags 373267 +pending
thanks
* Marc Herbert wrote:
> I just tried tonight to dpkg-buildpackage nulmailer 1.02-7 (among
> others) on Ubuntu breezy. As usual when autoconf is involved, it
> took me about 3 hours to understand and workaround this obscure
> compilation error:
>
> i486-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -W -Wall -o
> nullmailer-send send.o ../lib/libnullmailer.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function _start':
> ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:115: undefined reference to main'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [nullmailer-send] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory /var/tmp/nullmailer-1.00/src'
>
> Please find workaround attached in case you are interested.
Thanks! I realized this problem last weekend, took a quick look at the
autoconf/automake mess, but the solution wasn't obvious. It was on my
TODO list for next weekend...
> I'm always amazed how autoconf (with admittedly some help from dpkg)
> achieves to push compilation issues far beyond the capacities of
> mere mortals. So thanks for yet another brilliant (and surely not
> purposeful) demonstration.
Indeed.
Norbert
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