Bug#587002: boson: FTBFS on mips{, el}: /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol std::cerr@@GLIBCXX_3.4

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: boson
Version: 0.13-6
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on mips{,el}
User: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
Usertags: mips mipsel

Hello,

boson fails to build from source on mips[0] and mipsel[1] with the 
following error:

| /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol std::cerr@@GLIBCXX_3.4
| /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I believe that this is caused by bug #519006 in gcc-4.4. While 
apparently there's no fault of boson here, the build failure has to be 
fixed before squeeze release one way or another.

Possible ways to fix this bug:
1. Actually fix #519006 (non-trivial).
2. Compile boson on mips* without -g (untested, but should work 
according to Aurelien Jarno[2]).
3. Compile boson on mips* with gcc-4.3 (untested).
4. Request removal of mips* binaries from unstable[3].

[0] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=boson&ver=0.13-6%2Bb1&arch=mips&stamp=1276850306
[1] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=boson&ver=0.13-6%2Bb1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1276878003
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/519006#160
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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