Comment 5 for bug 6956

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:36:58 +0200
From: Stefano Zacchiroli <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: relocation error: slrn: undefined symbol: _SLChg_UCase_Lut

Package: slrn
Version: 0.9.8.0-14
Severity: grave

On powerpc arch slrn wont start due to the undefined symbol reported in
the subject of this bug report. Trying to rebuild the package from
sources fails as well with the following compilation error:

  gcc -g -O2 -o slrn art.o chmap.o editscore.o group.o grplens.o hash.o help.o hooks.o interp.o menu.o mime.o misc.o post.o score.o server.o sortdate.o slrn.o startup.o ttymsg.o util.o decode.o xover.o slrndir.o version.o print.o art_misc.o vfile.o snprintf.o art_sort.o ranges.o -L/usr/lib -lslang -lgnutls-extra -lgnutls -luu -lcanlock -lm -ldl
  /usr/lib/libuu.a(fptools.o)(.text+0xcfc): In function `_FP_tempnam':
  : warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
  /usr/lib/libuu.a(uunconc.o)(.text+0x3064): In function `UUDecode':
  : warning: the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
  art.o(.text+0x7026): In function `save_article_to_file':
  /tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/art.c:4149: undefined reference to `_SLChg_LCase_Lut'
  art.o(.text+0x702e):/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/art.c:4149: undefined reference to `_SLChg_LCase_Lut'
  art.o(.text+0x7056):/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/art.c:4138: undefined reference to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut'
  art.o(.text+0x705e):/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/art.c:4138: undefined reference to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut'
  mime.o(.text+0xa): In function `find_header_line':
  /tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/mime.c:101: undefined reference to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut'
  mime.o(.text+0x16):/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/mime.c:101: undefined reference to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut'
  mime.o(.text+0xc46): In function `slrn_rfc1522_decode_string':
  /tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/mime.c:525: undefined reference to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut'
  mime.o(.text+0xc4a):/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src/mime.c:525: more undefined references to `_SLChg_UCase_Lut' follow
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[3]: *** [slrn] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src'
  make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0/src'
  make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/slrn-0.9.8.0'
  make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
  debuild: fatal error at line 840:

Cheers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-fistandantilus
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro

Versions of packages slrn depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcanlock2 2b-3 library for creating and verifying
ii libgnutls7 0.8.12-5 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii slang1 1.4.9dbs-1 The S-Lang programming library - r

-- debconf information:
* shared/mailname: fistandantilus.takhisis.org
* slrn/manual_getdescs:
* slrn/getdescs: manually
* slrn/getdescs_now: false
* shared/news/server:
  slrn/lost_slrnpull: