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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> wrote:
> 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?

Does not make any sense to me:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22720

Let see what upstream has to say