On dim, fév 10, 2008 at 07:44:02 +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Dear Debian-Devel, we need your advices. > > Yesterday, we (the qt-kde packagers) uploaded qt3 version 3.3.8b. The biggest > differences over 3.3.7 is that it is now also gplv3 licensed. > > And then this bug report came: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465028 - libqt3-mt: Missing > weak symbols for stat64 functions > > basically, in qt3 3:3.3.7-9 and earlier, libqt3-mt seems to provide some > symbols: > > $ objdump -T libqt-mt.so.3 | grep stat64 > 004d2d9e w DF .text 00000032 Base stat64 > 002f19de w DF .text 00000032 Base fstat64 > 005dcba0 w DF .text 00000032 Base lstat64
We tracked the issue down. The thing is that libc6 used (before 2.7) to "export inline" those symbols, whereas now it's only done for C (not C++) and when gcc is >= 4.3. The thing is, when not using visiblity=hidden, 'extern inline' emits symbols in the resulting binary. The glibc _was_ wrong before, and it now has the proper behavior. Though, it means that some libraries had stat64 and friends exported in them, and that may cause lot of grief. A list of packages having or using those three symbols are beeing built, I'm unsure about what should be done about them, it's _not_ only qt3 that will have issues here. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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