Bug#797623: opensaml2: transition needed for g++-5 ABIs

[Ferenc Wagner]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
>
>> Looks like it won't, the builds fail everywhere.  At first sight the
>> problem seems to be that on amd64:
>
>> checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
>
>> which leads to liblog4shib.la being created, while on other arches:
>
>> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
>
>> and liblog4shib.la is not created, leading to an error when debian/rules
>> tries to remove it.  While this would be easy to work around, I really
>> wonder what's going on.  Looking at my older build logs, the -static
>> flag occasionally worked on amd64, but most of the it does not work
>> (according to configure).  Why does this happen?
>
> The rm command for removing liblog4shib.la hard-coded the multiarch path
> for amd64.  I just uploaded a new version of the package that should fix
> it.

I totally misled myself, thanks for fixing this up.  I still wonder
why -static does not work on amd64, though...

Meanwhile I pushed two small fixups for xmltooling, please sponsor the
upload if you agree.
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Thanks,
Feri.