Bug#617465: Package alex4_1.1-3 failed to build from source on Ubuntu natty

[Peter Pentchev]

package alex4
tag 617465 + pending
thanks

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:53:19PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:28:56AM +0530, Tarun Kumar Mall wrote:
> > > Package: alex4
> > > Version: 1.1-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: patch
> > > User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
> > > 
> > > Package failed to build from source.
> > > Here is the error log.
> > > 
> > > Binary package hint: alex4
> > > 
> > > cc `allegro-config --libs` -laldmb -ldumb -o alex4 actor.o edit.o map.o player.o shooter.o unix.o bullet.o hisc.o options.o script.o timer.o control.o main.o particle.o scroller.o token.o
> > [snip lots of linker errors because of badly ordered linker command line]
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[1]: *** [alex4] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tarun/source/alex4/alex4-1.1/src'
> > > make: *** [build-arch-stamp] Error 2
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> > > debuild: fatal error at line 1335:
> > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
> > > 
> > > *** /tmp/tmpdOEglw
> > > In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:
> > > 
> > >   * debian/patches/fix_ftbfs_binutils-gold.patch: changed the order of
> > >     libraries in order to fix FTBFS. (LP: #730653) 
> > > 
> > > We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 
> > 
> > Tarun, thanka (again - after the same discussion about dma ;) for the bug
> > report and the proposed patch!
> > 
> > Peter, what do you think about the attached series of patches that:
> > 
> > 1. in the very first patch, fixes this problem (although it does not
> >    cause an FTBFS in Debian, it's still a good idea to clean up
> >    the code - after all, the Unix linker has been documented to work
> >    this way for ages, even though, apparently, GNU ld is a bit lenient)
> > 
> > 2. in all the rest of the patches, refreshes the alex4 Debian packaging
> >    a whole lot - 3.0 (quilt), debhelper 8, Policy 3.9.1,
> >    dpkg-buildflags, etc.
> > 
> > If you have no objections, I could commit those patches to the Debian
> > Games Subversion repository; of course, as the principal maintainer of
> > alex4, it's your call to like or not like some or all of them :)
> > 
> > Thanks to both of you for trying to make the world a better place by
> > working on Debian and Ubuntu :)
> 
> And here's another patch that makes alex4 *not* FTBFS on unstable with
> all the warning options that I've turned on and the -Werror that I always
> test with :)

After an approval from Peter de Wachter via private e-mail, I've
committed my patches to the Debian Games Team's Subversion repository,
built the package, uploaded it to mentors.debian.net[0] and put up an
RFS on the Games Team's sponsors queue Wiki page.

Once again, thanks to both of you for your work on alex4.

G'luck,
Peter

[0] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alex4/alex4_1.1-4.dsc

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because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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