Bug#617465: Package alex4_1.1-3 failed to build from source on Ubuntu natty

Wed Mar 9 17:27:10 UTC 2011

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:28:56AM +0530, Tarun Kumar Mall wrote:
> Package: alex4
> Version: 1.1-3
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
> 
> Package failed to build from source.
> Here is the error log.
> 
> Binary package hint: alex4
> 
> cc `allegro-config --libs` -laldmb -ldumb -o alex4 actor.o edit.o map.o player.o shooter.o unix.o bullet.o hisc.o options.o script.o timer.o control.o main.o particle.o scroller.o token.o
[snip lots of linker errors because of badly ordered linker command line]
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [alex4] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tarun/source/alex4/alex4-1.1/src'
> make: *** [build-arch-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1335:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
> 
> *** /tmp/tmpdOEglw
> In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:
> 
>   * debian/patches/fix_ftbfs_binutils-gold.patch: changed the order of
>     libraries in order to fix FTBFS. (LP: #730653) 
> 
> We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 

Tarun, thanka (again - after the same discussion about dma ;) for the bug
report and the proposed patch!

Peter, what do you think about the attached series of patches that:

1. in the very first patch, fixes this problem (although it does not
   cause an FTBFS in Debian, it's still a good idea to clean up
   the code - after all, the Unix linker has been documented to work
   this way for ages, even though, apparently, GNU ld is a bit lenient)

2. in all the rest of the patches, refreshes the alex4 Debian packaging
   a whole lot - 3.0 (quilt), debhelper 8, Policy 3.9.1,
   dpkg-buildflags, etc.

If you have no objections, I could commit those patches to the Debian
Games Subversion repository; of course, as the principal maintainer of
alex4, it's your call to like or not like some or all of them :)

Thanks to both of you for trying to make the world a better place by
working on Debian and Ubuntu :)

G'luck,
Peter

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