On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:53:32PM +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:05:40AM +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > > > Source: pari > > > Version: 2.3.4-2 > > > Severity: minor > > > User: [email protected] > > > Usertags: no-add-needed > > > > > > Tried to build your package and it fails to build with GNU binutils-gold. > > > The important difference is that --no-add-needed is the default behavior > > > of of GNU binutils-gold. Please provide all needed libraries to the > > > linker when building your executables. > > > > > > More informations can be found at > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2009-11-02Packagesfailingbeca > > >usebinutils-gold.2BAC8-indirectlinking > > > > Hello Peter, > > Thanks for the report, and I agree with the issue (I forgot plotport used > > libm). > > > > However I am slightly concerned that this policy is opposite to another one > > that say to never link binaries against library they do not use directly, > > to avoid spurious dependencies. > You use it directly as you link to plotport.o which must be linked to libm. > You must always resolve symbols of objects you link to. It wouldn't be the > case if you link to libplotport.so.
I completly agreed with this, however the real reason for this bug in the first place is that gp used to be linked against libgmp and I got a report that this dependency was spurious since gp only use libgmp through libpari, so I removed the link. Unfortunately I did the same for libm since I forgot about the file plotport.o which is the only one to use libm. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
