Bug#890242: perl: FTBFS with glibc-2.27: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the symbols file

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:53:12PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.26.1-4
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-glibc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: 2.27
> 
> perl 5.26.1-4 fails to build with glibc 2.27 (2.27-0experimental0 from
> experimental):

> | - _LIB_VERSION at Base 5.26.0~rc1
> | +#MISSING: 5.26.1-4# _LIB_VERSION at Base 5.26.0~rc1

> The solution for it to work with both glibc 2.27 and older version is to
> mark the symbol as optional. This should not be a problem, as a package
> which needs the "ieee" library has to link against libieee.a which will
> then provide the symbols. In addition no such package perl package has
> been found during the archive rebuild.
> 
> Therefore the following simple patch should be enough to fix the issue:

Many thanks! Will fix once the gdbm transition is over.
-- 
Niko