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please drop linking of libbfd

Bug #1751852 reported by Steve Langasek on 2018-02-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1748922: linux-tools: perf incorrectly linking libbfd. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Stefan Bader

Bug Description

This is a rehash of <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/783660>. linux-tools in xenial and later is again dynamically linking against libbfd. It should not; this makes linux-tools packages not installable across releases, which is important for debugging etc., because of a strict versioned dependency on binutils. This also prevents us from e.g. being able to forward-copy kernels between releases when this is appropriate.

I understand the preferred option is to drop the linkage against libbfd completely. Either this should be done, or libbfd should be statically linked.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2018-02-26

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Stefan Bader (smb) on 2018-02-26

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Stefan Bader (smb)

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote on 2018-02-27:

It seems this was already worked on by apw for bionic. I am marking this new report as duplicate against that one and will work on backporting changes done there into Artful and Xenial.