On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:45:39AM +1000, Harshula wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:39 -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > > > + CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \ > > > + CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" \ > > > + LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs" \ > > > > I think I've seen this flag before. What does it do exactly? > > I have no idea, again it's from the template. Having a look at the man > page ld(1):
Well, dh_make has quite some wrong/sub-optimal things in its template, in my humble opinion. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Note---if the linker is being invoked indirectly, via a compiler driver > (e.g. gcc) then all the linker command line options should be prefixed > by -Wl, (or whatever is appropriate for the particular compiler driver) > > ... > -z keyword > The recognized keywords are: > > .... > defs > Disallows undefined symbols in object files. Undefined symbols in > shared libraries are still allowed. > ------------------------------------------------------------ Yes I've read these doc before I asked. However they didn't explain anything for me. Scim-m17n links to quite a few shared libraries, and it has been built fine without the "-Wl,-z,defs" flag in Debian in the past. So from what I see this flag is at best a no-op. > What's the correct and quickest procedure for getting scim-m17n updated > to 0.2.2? I am not quite sure. Osamu is the maintainer, and I am not a DD, so the upload is up to him. Currently I see two ways: (1) You improve your 0.2.2 packaging and build/test in unstable, and ask Osamu to sponsor; (2) I put scim-m17n to a higher priority and update the current packaging to 0.2.2 (which was in my plan anyway, just probably not so urgent). I think Osamu's preference is the key here. Ming 2007.05.24 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
