Bug#488531: devhelper FTBFS with gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:11:26PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Mike Hommey (mh at glandium.org) [080701 20:35]:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:24:02PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:49:10AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > > * Mike Hommey (mh at glandium.org) [080701 07:40]:
> > > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:44:34PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > > > > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> > > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is it possible to see get this .libs/libdevhelp_1_la-Yelper.o file ?
> > > > 
> > > > Not from me at least.
> > > > 
> > > > What I can do is of course build that package on another alpha, and then
> > > > copy the relevant files out - albeniz.debian.org is open for all
> > > > developers of course.

> > > I'll just get the build-deps installed on albeniz.

> > Hum... it builds flawlessly on albeniz...

> I've given the package now back on goetz to see if that issue persists.
> If so, could one of the alpha porters please take a look at it?

Failed again on the autobuilder.

Trivially reproducible here on unstable when using dpkg-buildpackage.

The Yelper.o file is attached, but I'm not sure this is a bug in that file;
the error "gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol
gtk_moz_embed_get_nsIWebBrowser" looks to me like a binutils problems of
some sort.  It's apparently not the bug we've seen before with ld --relax
being enabled by default, because adding -Wl,--no-relax to LDFLAGS doesn't
fix it.

I'm not sure why this wouldn't have been reproducible on albeniz, unless the
build env wasn't up-to-date?

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