Bug#537572: gnome-settings-daemon can't connect to D-Bus and eats CPU on ia64 due to -Wl, -z-defs

[Jonathan Nieder]

Émeric Maschino wrote:

> Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, Gold isn't available on ia64,
> neither in Wheezy, nor Sid. And I can't make it compile successfully
> :-(

Please feel free to file a bug at <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla> and
cc me on it.

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> Le 14 novembre 2011 23:51, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> a écrit :

>>  - what does using "-z defs" buy us when the error is demoted to a
>>   warning by a later command-line option, anyway?  Though I still
>>   don't understand what is causing this code path to break.
>
> Sorry Jonathan, my limited English doesn't allow me to understand this
> last section. What do you mean by "buy us"?

I meant to ask what it is meant to accomplish.  Joss mentioned that
dropping "-z defs" is a bad thing since it would let undefined symbols
slip through the cracks.  But these plugins are not linked to the X11
libraries that they use or even libm when they use routines from
there, so it seems strange.

Of course that doesn't change that there is probably a binutils bug
here somewhere.  Thanks for your help so far in tracking it down.