[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#886973: kronosnet: FTBFS on ppc64: knet_handle_new not found in binary lib

[Ferenc Wágner]

ucko at debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:

> Ferenc Wágner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
>
>> I wanted to, but hit some problem...  Maybe failed to access a
>> porterbox.  Anyway, that error does not make any sense, knet_handle_new
>> is the first thing the tests call, so I assumed it was a toolchain or
>> binutils issue which would resolve itself eventually...
>
> Ah, ok.  Sounds like whatever setup this test uses to check symbol
> availability managed to misfire, then.

The test looks for the exported API function names in the text (T)
section, but the ppc64 nm reports them in the data (D) section:

$ nm -B -D libknet.so.1.0.0 
0000000000000000 A LIBKNET
[...]
000000000003ec40 D knet_handle_new
[...]

Is this a known ppc64 peculiarity or a binutils bug?
-- 
Thanks,
Feri