[Debichem-devel] Bug#554372: FTBFS with binutils-gold

[Peter Fritzsche]

Carlos Pereira wrote:
> Hi Daniel, hi Peter,
> 
> It's my fault then. I am sorry. Interesting that this issue never
> surfaced before.
Yes, this is more the fault of the old GNU ld which is used by most 
distributions right now (like Ubuntu 9.10). It has a quite messy way of 
finding the symbols, but there are different other linkers around used by 
other Unix systems and maybe GNU gold will replace the old ld in the future on 
Linux too. As this didn't happened yet it is a minor bug for Debian right.

Thanks for fixing it right now.

I think that it is just a matter of time until the transition will happen. The 
design and optimization features of the linker (read about global 
optimizations and plugin interface only some weeks ago). Yes, it is in some 
parts different then the old linker, but in a sane way.

Best regards,
	Peter