gnutls.pc contains unrecognized command line option -R

[Dan Kegel]

$ pkg-config --libs --static gnutls
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lgnutls -lz -R/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lp11-kit -lgmp -lhogweed -lgmp -lnettle -ltasn1 -lp11-kit -lz

$ grep -e -R /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/*.pc
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gnutls.pc:Libs.private: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lz -R/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lp11-kit -lgmp

That -R looks innocent, but it's not. Libs.private is passed to gcc, not to ld, so it needs to use -Wl,-rpath... what am I saying, it shouldn't be passing an rpath at all, should it?

Anyway, the -R has to go, it causes build failure for any app that uses pkg-config --static --libs gnutls

This bug was not present in ubuntu 12.04, but is present in both ubuntu 14.04 and ubuntu 15.10.

The workaround for affected developers is to ham-fistedly remove the -R/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gnutls.pc

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

This was noticed by at least one other random guy on the intertubes: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/aria2/issues/359

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[Dan Kegel (dank)]

I reported this upstream as https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/49
and it was fixed upstream with https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/28e0716146530ff5e9b2041c52f78a9ecc7f63b5

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

gnutls26 has never been released with xenial, and gnutls28 in there has been fixed, so invalid.