Bug#830681: trilinos-all-dev: Updating binutils breaks trilinos

[Helmut Grohne]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 01:04:13PM +0200, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> if that's correct, we shouldn't link libtrilinos_teuchoscore.so to a
> particular revision of libbfd-2.26-system.so. how would that be
> possible?
> 
> otoh, if libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
> - is meant to replace libbfd-2.26-system.so, shouldn't there be a
>   symlink?
> - is NOT meant to provide libbfd-2.26-system.so, then why are these not
>   coinstallable?

Dynamically linking libbfd-*-system.so is no allowed. This is explicitly
stated in the package description of binutils-dev.

If you absolutely must link libbfd, link it statically and add an
appropriate Built-Using header.

Helmut