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

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

On 06-Oct-24 08:59, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Can you look at those packages and check if whatever they do to get symbol
> versioning would work for sasl in ppc64?  As long as the symbols get
> versioned, changing how we do it in sasl would not be a problem.

all packages that are problematic on ppc64 use basically the same method
as cyrus-sasl2 to extract the list of symbols, i.e. the output of nm
is parsed for symbols marked with 'T' (=text segment) with the help of 
grep and sed. I could not yet find a better method that is portable
to ppc64. However, I will continue to search for such a method 
because this issue prevents some important packages to build on ppc64.

Anyway, thank you again for looking at this problem.  

Regards
Andreas Jochens