On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:19:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> writes: > > > Thanks for looking at this. > > > The probe doesn't actually use anything from the headers, it just > > includes them:
> It's from a static inline function defined in the headers. See perl.h: > > #ifndef PERL_NO_INLINE_FUNCTIONS > /* Static inline funcs that depend on includes and declarations above. > Some of these reference functions in the perl object files, and some > compilers aren't smart enough to eliminate unused static inline > functions, so including this file in source code can cause link errors > even if the source code uses none of the functions. Hence including these > can be be suppressed by setting PERL_NO_INLINE_FUNCTIONS. Doing this will > (obviously) result in unworkable XS code, but allows simple probing code > to continue to work, because it permits tests to include the perl headers > for definitions without creating a link dependency on the perl library > (which may not exist yet). > */ > > # include "inline.h" > #endif > > So the solution is to either always link with the Perl flags, not just > compile, or to define that macro in probes. Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for educating me! (and apologies for not taking the time to dig this up myself.) So it's indeed xchat-gnome that needs to be fixed. Will file a proper report tonight (but anybody is naturally free to beat me to it.) -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
