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

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Ferenc Wágner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:

> 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?

Good question.  Porters?

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