[gentoo-dev] binutils / gcc / objprelink

[Chris Houser <chouser@gentoo.org>]

dev-util/objprelink depends on a /usr/lib/libiberty.a that includes
'htab_find_slot_with_hash' as well as other 'htab_*' things.

PROBLEM 1:
If this dependency is unresolved, the ebuild blindly continues, causing
later qt ebuilds to fail mysteriously.  The objprelink ebuild has now
been fixed in dev-util/objprelink-0-r1.ebuild.

But why would the libiberty dependency be unresolved, when the
objprelink ebuild clearly states that it depends on sys-devel/gcc
and sys-devel/binutils?

PROBLEM 2:
Both gcc-2.95.3-r5 and binutils-2.11.90.0.27 install (different)
/usr/lib/libiberty.a's, and the one gcc installs doesn't have the
'htab_*' functions that objprelink needs.

This problem is NOT solved.  It seems to me that gcc shouldn't be
installing a broken libiberty, but what do I know?  It also seems that
portage could try to catch this sort of problem during 'merge'.  It'd be
nice, anyway.

As a work-around, I re-merged binutils, which over-wrote gcc's
libiberty, and now objprelink builds fine.

PROBLEM 3:
This isn't directly related, but I noticed along the way that portage
seems to think that sys-devel/binutils-2.11.90.0.7 is newer than
sys-devel/binutils-2.11.90.0.27 -- that doesn't seem right.

--Chouser