On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I updated redhat-rpm-config to instruct ld to reject linking shared objects
> with undefined symbols. Such undefined symbols break symbol versioning
> because the are not necessarily bound to the correct symbol version at run
> time. (rhbz#1535422)
>
> ### Disable strict symbol checks in the link editor (ld)
>
> By default, the link editor will refuse to link shared objects which
> contain undefined symbols. In some cases (such as when a DSO is
> loaded as a plugin and is expected to bind to symbols in the main
> executable), undefined symbols are expected. In this case, you can
> add
>
> %undefine _strict_symbol_defs_build
>
> to the RPM spec file to disable these strict checks. Alternatively,
> you can pass `-z undefs` to ld (written as `-Wl,-z,undefs` on the gcc
> command line). The latter needs binutils 2.29.1-12.fc28 or later.
So, with this change to redhat-rpm-config, about 20 of my ~100
packages now fail / will probably fail to build due to undefined
symbols.
For the record, my affected packages are (according to koschei, and as
of the time of writing this):
- gala (internal plugins)
- maya-calendar("ceil" reference missing, ppc64 only)
- noise (internal plugins)
- pantheon-photos(internal plugins)
- scratch-text-editor(internal plugins)
- slingshot-launcher(plugin)
- switchboard-plug-onlineaccounts(internal plugins)
- wingpanel(no idea)
- wingpanel-indicator-datetime ("ceil" reference missing, ppc64 only)
I have no idea how to tell if these are really fallout from the change
to redhat-rpm-config, or if the change only uncovered bugs in the
upstream build definitions (which lead to erroneous underlinking?).
Fabio
> This is also part of the build flags documentation at:
>
> <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/blob/master/f/buildflags.md>
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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