Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/11/09 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > > About the usertags? Is there a special format in which they should be? > > And a maintainer asked for a wiki entry at > > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS but I am not allowed to change > > that patch - and I a

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > What is a MBF? > > mass bug filing. thanks > > I am not sure but do you think that it is a good way to link against a > > library without specify that you link against it? > > The question is not about what I think. The question is whether it's > reasonable to expect A

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sune Vuorela] > the major difference is: > your app uses both libfoo and libbar. libbar uses libfoo. with ld, it > is sufficient to do -lbar, and with gold you need -lfoo -lbar. > in both cases, your app will have NEEDED entries for both libfoo and > libbar. If you want symbol versioning to wor

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > About the usertags? Is there a special format in which they should be? And a > maintainer asked for a wiki entry at > http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS but I am not allowed to change > that > patch - and I am sure that I shouldn't be

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 13:50 +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting > > a MBF? > What is a MBF? mass bug filing. > > Anyway, ways you could have made it better: > > - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the p

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Fritzsche
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting > a MBF? What is a MBF? > Anyway, ways you could have made it better: > - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the problem > - use a usertag to follow all the bugs > - provide a link to a wiki page

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/11/09 at 12:12 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> >> Binutils-gold is not the default. It is a bit 'stricter' in how it >> works, but it is notably faster. > I was talking about not making --no-add-needed the default in > binutils-gold. then you are effec

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/11/09 at 12:12 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> Tried to build your package and it fails to build with GNU binutils-gold. > >> The > >> important difference is that --no-add-needed is the default behavior of of > >> GNU > >> binutils-gold. Please p

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> Tried to build your package and it fails to build with GNU binutils-gold. The >> important difference is that --no-add-needed is the default behavior of of >> GNU >> binutils-gold. Please provide all needed libraries to the linker when >> building >> you

Re: Bug#553936: FTBFS with binutils-gold

2009-11-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I thought people were supposed to discuss it on -devel@ before starting a MBF? Anyway, ways you could have made it better: - provide a step by step guide to reproduce the problem - use a usertag to follow all the bugs - provide a link to a wiki page where you would have put more info about