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grpc package

Segfault when library is linked using "-Bsymbolic-functions"

Bug #1748586 reported by Michael Biebl on 2018-02-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1727528: Linking against libgrpc.so fails. Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grpc (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/11195

The grpc library is broken as it has been compiled with "-Bsymbolic-functions". This makes the library unusuable.
-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions should be stripped from LD_FLAGS when building on Ubuntu.

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-05-22:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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

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Kohei Takahashi (flast) wrote on 2019-01-09:

I commented about resolution last year.

> Because `libgrpc++.so` contains some C implementation what also exists in `libgrpc.so`, so some C functions (and static variable, e.g. `g_event_engine`) are duplicated. Some of calls go to `libgrpc.so` and others go to `libgrpc++.so`, and refers uninitialized variables.
>
> To resolve this, remove all C files from `LIBGRPC++_*_SRC` in Makefile.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/11195#issuecomment-438897402