Bug#621037: scotch: missing inter-library links

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 21:18 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Pierre & Johannes,
> 
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:13 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Package: src:scotch
> > Version: 5.1.11.dfsg-5
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: causes other packages to FTBFS
> > X-DebBugs-CC: gladky.anton at gmail.com
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > In the last upload or two, the scotch package has lost its inter-library
> > linkages.  libscotchmetis should be linked -lscotch, and libscotch
> > should be linked -lscotcherr and a couple of others, but they're not.
> 
> I'm afraid this sends us back to the drawing board.  We can't simply use
> "AR = gcc ..." to build shared libraries because they need to link to
> each other.
> 
> What were the reasons for building this way again?  I can see that it's
> helpful to build the static libraries without -fPIC, but one can do this
> by building .lo objects with -fPIC and making the shared libs with
> those, like libtool does.
> 
> I'm afraid I'm going to have to revert much of the recent work to -4 and
> try to fix its problems a different way...

Just put a fix in alioth, let me know if it gives you trouble.  I plan
to upload within 4-5 hours.

-Adam
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