Bug#441122: Fwd: Re: Bug#441122: cacao - FTBFS: undefined reference to `__data_start'

Sat Sep 29 20:41:47 UTC 2007

* Cyril Brulebois:

> Forwarding the question to the (hopefully) appropriate persons.
>
> From: Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#441122: cacao - FTBFS: undefined reference to `__data_start'
> To: Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr>
> Cc: 441122 at bugs.debian.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:21:02 +0200
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:07:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> is this bug still reproducible? I can't on some other archs at least.
>
> Yes. Why does it embed boehm-gc instead of using libgc? Does the
> security team know that?

Some application require that the BDW collector is compiled with
non-standard flags.  Perhaps this is the case with Cacao?