[lttng-dev] [PATCH] Fix linker library order

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Alexandre Montplaisir (alexmonthy at voxpopuli.im) wrote:
> On 13-05-14 01:38 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > If you read carefully the log sent by Alexandre, you see that it is
> > when building the shared libs in this directory
> > (lttng-ust-provider-ust-tests-demo.so) that the build fails. I don't
> > know why it fails, but Alexandre hinted that passing "-fPIE -pie" to
> > build a shared library is weird (it is usually -fPIC -pic). I am not
> > sure where that comes from. This behaviour only happens when building
> > the package, not when building manually.
> 
> We build the daily packages with all Debian security options (this is
> kind of a future-proofing to find problems like this one, I don't think
> the "real" Debian packages use it).
> 
> See
> http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_PIE_.28gcc.2Fg.2B-.2B-_-fPIE_-pie.29
> 
> So far it handled the autotools-powered Makefiles correctly (libraries
> are built with -fPIC, binaries with -fPIE), but it seems to cause
> problems with hand-written Makefiles like the one in doc/examples/demo.
> 
> We could fix it with a package-specific patch, either by using autotools
> to build this directory, or maybe not building it at all, since it's
> just an example that we don't install...

has this been fixed by the recent revert ?

> 
> 
> Thanks all,
> Alex

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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