On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:38 +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote:

> Den Monday 07 July 2008 19:25:34 skrev Adam Williamson:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:40 +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > > Oden Eriksson <oeriksson@(protected):
> > > + Revision: 232153
> > > - use _disable_ld_no_undefined due to build problems
> >
> > (For this and libkmfl): I thought the whole point of the underlinking
> > stuff was that we were supposed to identify and fix the problems, rather
> > than just work around them by disabling underlinking? For shared
> > libraries, at least. Or are they not fixable in this case?
> >
> > It just seems like installing a test for a problem and then disabling
> > the test whenever it detects the problem is kind of a wasted effort. :)
>
> I think many changelog entries in a row like " - use _disable_ld_no_undefined
> due to build problems" misleads you into thinking I did it out of laziness or
> because I don't care, or whenever I detect a problem. Please...

So it was supposed to mean "due to build problems I was not able to
resolve"? That wasn't clear.

We should probably have a youri list of packages which provide shared
libraries that are currently using _disable_ld_no_undefined so people
can track them and have a go at fixing...
--
adamw