Llywar Report post Posted June 19, 2011 This is obviously going to be lower priority than dealing with 1.9.2 bugs/etc, but tinderbox testing at Gentoo has uncovered some underlinking issues with the linux client. The ld linker isn't bothered by underlinking, although it can lead to subtle errors when non-linked libraries change ABI and --as-needed is used. Obviously this won't impact static binaries. The gentoo bug can be found at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369315 The EL build output with errors on underlinking can be found at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=275159 The fix is somewhat straightforward - edit the Makefile to include the libraries containing the functions. While there are a bunch of errors I suspect it will only be a few libraries. What is doing to be more complex is that some of those functions could be provided by more than one library (such as xlib vs xcb), and EL doesn't use autotools or a similar mechanism to work this out. Essentially EL is "cheating" by letting SDL (or whatever is brining those in) figure that out and leveraging the underlying functions. I don't have a ton of time at the moment, but if I get a chance I'll see what I can do in terms of patches and send any I make your way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
