[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#369411: alsa-lib: FTBFS on AMD64 (32-bit link problems)

[Aurelien Jarno]

James Troup a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> writes:
> 
>> The bug is opened with a patch for a long time, so I plan to do a porter
>> NMU on friday morning UTC time, unless you oppose and upload a patched
>> version by yourself.
> 
> I do oppose an NMU as you haven't actually explained why this patch is
> necessary.  Ubuntu doesn't have this patch and yet has been building
> 32-bit alsa for several releases without problems.

Also Ubuntu *DOES* have this patch. Matthias has added it in version 
2.17-1ubuntu1, and the patch is called 
debian/patches/122_x86_64_i386_biarch.dpatch.

Note the bug was not present on the previous builds because alsa-lib was 
using an old libtool, which was linking against a lot of libraries. The 
bug has been triggered when the package has been relibtoolized, and the 
link done with only the necessary libraries.

Ubuntu has never seen this bug probably because the new version of 
alsa-lib was never built with the version of libtool without the patch.


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