Compiz

compiz fails to build with GNU gold linker

Bug #1058149 reported by Stephen M. Webb on 2012-09-28

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Compiz	Fix Released	Medium	Sam Spilsbury	Compiz 0.9.9.0
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Sam Spilsbury

Bug Description

Some test executables are failing to link because they have undefined symbols. In particular, build errors are as follows.

Linking CXX executable compiz_plugin_test
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:150: error: undefined reference to 'dlopen'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:159: error: undefined reference to 'dlerror'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:162: error: undefined reference to 'dlsym'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:164: error: undefined reference to 'dlerror'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:194: error: undefined reference to 'dlerror'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:198: error: undefined reference to 'dlclose'
/home/.../compiz/src/plugin.cpp:211: error: undefined reference to 'dlclose'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

and

Linking CXX executable compizconfig_test_gsettings
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:131: error: undefined reference to 'g_str_equal'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:156: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_type_checked_'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:156: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_init'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:157: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_add'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:159: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_end'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:166: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_unref'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:210: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_type_checked_'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:210: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_init'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:211: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_add'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:212: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_add'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:214: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_builder_end'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:229: error: undefined reference to 'g_variant_unref'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:247: error: undefined reference to 'g_free'
/home/.../compiz/compizconfig/gsettings/tests/test_gsettings_tests.cpp:265: error: undefined reference to 'g_free'
....

Steps To Reproduce:

(1) apt-get install binutils-gold
(2) try a clean build of compiz

Related branches

lp:~compiz-team/compiz/compiz.fix_1058149

Merged into lp:compiz/0.9.9 at revision 3406

Daniel van Vugt: Approve on 2012-10-02

jenkins (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2012-09-30

Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) on 2012-09-29

Changed in compiz:
status:	New → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
milestone:	none → 0.9.9.0

Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) on 2012-09-30

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2012-09-30

Changed in compiz:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Unity Merger (unity-merger) on 2012-10-02

Changed in compiz:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2012-11-26

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in compiz:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2013-01-24

Changed in compiz:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels) on 2019-02-13

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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