Dear Tom. On 16.04.2010 23:03, Tom Lane wrote: > It's not a bug in our build system; it's a bug in Gentoo's library set, > ie, the heimdal library is exposing a symbol that it can't actually > guarantee to provide.
I still maintain that it's a bug in the build system: heimdal does expose and provide the symbols via transitive dependencies. The configure script tests for the symbol without explicitely enabling --as-needed, and therefore uses the transitive dependency and finds the symbol. The actual linker invocation later on during the build uses --as-needed, therefore disregards the transitive dependencies, therefore fails to find the symbol and errors out. The idea of configure is to test whether features are actually usable for a build. Therefore using different linker flags than at application link time is against the idea of configure scripts. I agree that it's not particularly nice of libraries like libroken to export strlcpy and strlcat, as these are not part of its official job description. > If it were a generic issue we'd be seeing it > reported on other Linuxen, since AFAIK nobody's glibc provides strlcpy. Most binary distros use the MIT Kerberos implementation, at least when building their packages, so they won't encounter this. Try installing both heimdal and pgsql from source, without explicitely using --as-needed for either, and if that fails to reproduce the issue, I'll accept your statement. > The question for us is whether we should install a workaround, which in > any case would only be needed until Gentoo fixes their heimdal build. > I'm inclined to agree with Bruce that it's not worth the trouble --- > especially since I don't care for any of the solutions you proposed. > Most of them could break other platforms. How so? How is stripping kerberos libs for the function detection part any worse than stripping libedit? How could adding -Wl,--as-needed before the checks instead of after break complete builds? Anywhere where it breaks detection, the build is bound to break in a way similar to this issue here, isn't it? If you can outline how this might break other platforms, maybe I or some other Gentoo user can come up with an improved solution. Greetings, Martin von Gagern
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