[Bug 974669] Re: yaboot FTBFS on precise

[Matthias Klose]

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2012-May/thread.html
discusses the issue, proposing to build another special flavor of libext2


** Changed in: yaboot (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  yaboot FTBFS on precise

Status in “yaboot” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  sudo apt-get install build-essential && sudo apt-get build-dep yaboot
  && apt-get source yaboot && cd yaboot-* && debian/rules build

  fails in the linking part

  ld -Ttext 0x200000 -Bstatic -melf32ppclinux second/crt0.o second/yaboot.o second/cache.o second/prom.o second/file.o second/partition.o second/fs.o second/cfg.o second/setjmp.o second/cmdline.o second/fs_of.o second/fs_ext2.o second/fs_iso.o second/iso_util.o lib/nonstd.o lib/nosys.o lib/string.o lib/strtol.o lib/vsprintf.o lib/ctype.o lib/malloc.o lib/strstr.o second/md5.o second/fs_xfs.o second/fs_reiserfs.o -lext2fs `gcc -m32 -print-libgcc-file-name` -o second/yaboot
  /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libext2fs.a(mmp.o): In function `ext2fs_mmp_read':
  (.text+0xf8): undefined reference to `open'
  /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libext2fs.a(mmp.o): In function `ext2fs_mmp_read':
  (.text+0x158): undefined reference to `read'
  /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libext2fs.a(mmp.o): In function `ext2fs_mmp_write':
  (.text+0x200): undefined reference to `gettimeofday'
  /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libext2fs.a(mmp.o): In function `ext2fs_mmp_reset':
  (.text+0x370): undefined reference to `gethostname'
  ...

  There is already a patch e2fs-missing-libc.patch "Provide missing libc
  functions required by e2fslibs." but I suspect a newer e2fslibs has
  created more problems.

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