Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:37:45PM +0530, Tarun Kumar Mall wrote: > In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: > > * debian/patches/070_fix_ftbfs_binutils-gold.patch: moved library > in the end in makefile to fix FTBFS. (LP: #732064)
Is the problem with gold the -lsocks or the -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed? I've removed the -lsocks for unrelated reasons. I tried your patch, and when compiling with the standard debian toolchain (sid with ld.bfd from binutils 2.21.52.20110707-1) I get: : dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libz.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/ckermit/usr/bin/kermit" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). : dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libcrypt.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/ckermit/usr/bin/kermit" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). which implies it is ignoring the --as-needed. I'm inclined to include the patch anyway, as an FTBFS is worse than a couple of warnings (that I'm fairly sure are spurious anyway) but if it was only needed because of -lsocks then I'll just drop it. any thoughts? Incidentally, are there any plans in ubuntu to make gold the default linker? cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: DJ Cheb I Sabbah - Krishna Lila - Govinda
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