dpkg-buildpackage: change default value of LDFLAGS

* scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl: LDFLAGS now defaults to an empty
value instead of "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions". The latter can break
some libraries at run-time and such a change is best done
at the beginning of a release cycle.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 407103819ba9db96c69e0b37c9a4c34085c0e23a..23efe63369d6c55bcfdbdd47d94f9916c8f4f588 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-03-28  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+       * scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl: LDFLAGS now defaults to an empty
+       value instead of "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions". The latter can break
+       some libraries at run-time and such a change is best done
+       at the beginning of a release cycle.
+
 2008-03-27  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
 
        * scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs.pm: Support cross-compilation by adding

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 86708ebe1f12de22ce04c070ba8440eebf0fd945..76c7d4fb70be8ac68fb76937bafbd54f26efae4c 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ dpkg (1.14.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * dpkg-shlibdeps is now able to look into directories containing libraries
     used by cross-built binaries provided that the right environment variable
     are set. Closes: #453267
+  * Change default value of LDFLAGS (set by dpkg-buildpackage) to ''
+    instead of '-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions'. It's safer at this point of the
+    release cycle.
 
   [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
   * Add a warning in dpkg-buildpackage if the build-dependencies are not

diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl b/scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl
index 6e1dc0e52bdcca4ee82ac0c7f8c940956168866d..d0141b46e76eff1610522955c0101f1b078382e5 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ my %flags = ( CPPFLAGS => '',
              CFLAGS   => $default_flags,
              CXXFLAGS => $default_flags,
              FFLAGS   => $default_flags,
-             LDFLAGS  => "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions",
+             LDFLAGS  => '',
     );
 
 foreach my $flag (keys %flags) {