Build broken on Debian Testing (linker trouble)

Moritz Lenz moritz at faui2k3.org
Sun Jun 10 12:17:24 UTC 2012


On 06/10/2012 12:55 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> On 06/10/2012 12:34 PM, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
>> On 10/06/2012 12:19, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2012 08:40 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>>> So in short, it exhibits the same problem as master.
>>>
>>> I've run Configure.pl with --verbose and captured the output; you can
>>> find it here: http://moritz.faui2k3.org/tmp/parrot-configure.log
>>>
>>> The first occurrence of -pie comes from `icu-config --ldflags`.
>> 
>> Ah, that's where the flags come from. This has already been reported as 
>> a Debian bug:
>> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675895
>> 
>> It seems that the Debian parrot maintainer has fixed this by using 
>> "icu-config --ldflags-libsonly" and that a fix for ICU is also in the works.
> 
> Should we adopt that fix too?

I've done this now, since it fixed the build for me (on master).

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commit/5870084f05

Since it's more than a week to the next release, we should have enough
time to watch for potential fallout from that patch.

Cheers,
Moritz


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