Package: binutils Version: 2.16.1-2 Severity: important
Hi, The linker flag "--as-needed" is borken on some arches and causes build failures. This is currently used to reduce shlibs deps in a lot of packages in GNOME (~40), and removing it would: - cause 40 uploads and a lot of work, - mean relibtoolizing for all new upstream releases. I've posted about this issue on debian-devel: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01067.html> You can find a sample FTBFS in #319162. Ubuntu is tracking this issue at: <https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12822> this also has a test case. At least sparc and alpha are affected. Please tell me where to send this upstream. Bye, -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages binutils depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an binutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come, your destiny awaits!