cyrus-sasl2: FTBFS (ppc64): /usr/bin/ld:Versions:3: syntax error in VERSION script

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> Would it be possible to switch the versioning off for the ppc64
> architecture only, at least until there is another solution for this?
> Since the package has never been built with versioned symbols on ppc64
> anyway there would be no problem on ppc64.
> 
> cyrus-sasl2 is one of the very few important packages which still
> do not build on ppc64 without applying a patch. It would be very nice
> to have a version of cyrus-sasl2 in the archive which builds on ppc64 
> without needing a patch.

How about the ppc64 people tell us exactly what needs versioning [in
addition to all of the library exported symbols, of course] and what needs
not in the ppc64 ABI, and we adding a script for ppc64 versioning instead?

Not using versioned symbols in an arch is *not* acceptable IMHO.  Doing
arch-specific stuff to get the versioning right is quite acceptable, OTOH.
We didn't add versioned symbols to a whole lot of libraries in Debian, sasl2
included, for trivial reasons.

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