[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#753421: blocking the ppc64el architecture bootstrap

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 08:23:20AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> i am the upstream programmer.
> 
> > Don't hesitate to ask questions if you need help to fix this bug.
> 
> Can it be that the linker of that ppc64el installation is insufficient ?
> 
> I diffed the build logs of ppc64el and i386. These are suspicious:
> 
> < checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64ppc) supports shared libr
> aries... no
> ---
> > checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
> [...]
> < checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
> < checking whether to build shared libraries... no
> ---
> > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> > checking whether to build shared libraries... yes

This is indeed the issue. The libtool part of the configure script
included in libburn is to old, and doesn't have the code to correctly
detect the ppc64el. This causes the shared libraries to not be built.

This is why a patch is provided in the bug report to regenerate
autoconf related files at build time. From the upstream point of view,
you might want to release the next version with the autoconf related
files regenerated with a relatively recent version of autoconf, 
automake and libtool.

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