[Fedora-packaging] f11 build error

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Gregory Hosler (ghosler at redhat.com) said:
>> not sure if this is the correct fedora mailing list or not to bring this up on...
>
> fedora-devel-list may be better, CC'ing it.
>
>> I came across a build error on X64, in F-11
>>
>> I have been seeing this exact bug report my other distso users that have been building my
>> package on other distro x64 platforms, and so far I do not know what the solution might be.
>>
>> When i do a libtool build on a library, I am seeing the following:
>>
>> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
>> - -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic
>> - -Wno-pointer-sign -funsigned-char -shared -fpic -fPIC  -o libgyachi.so gytreeview.o
>> gy_config.o gyachi_lib.o parsecfg.o theme_support.o sound_plugin.o plugins.o -lgtk-x11-2.0
>> - -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo
>> - -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lltdl
>> - -lX11  -lpthread
>> libtool: link: gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
>> - -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wno-pointer-sign
>> - -funsigned-char -fpic -fPIC -o libgyachi.so gytreeview.o gy_config.o gyachi_lib.o
>> parsecfg.o theme_support.o sound_plugin.o plugins.o  -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0
>> - -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype
>> - -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lltdl -lX11 -lpthread
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start':
>> (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> ld is not treating this as a shared library, rather it is treating this as a main program.
>
> The F-11 tree has libtool-2.2.6, instead of libtool-1.5 as in Fedora 10 and
> earlier. I suspect that's what's tripping you up.

Is automake being used? How are you invoking libtool? I would suspect
the correct way to do this in automake is:

wherever_LTLIBRARIES = libgyachi.la
libgyachi_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version

--
Dan