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[core-updates-frozen] "multiple definition of..." build failures

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
Cc: 50243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50243: [core-updates-frozen] "multiple definition of..." build failures
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 16:41:06 +0200

Hi Sarah,

Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev> skribis:

> Gentoo's tracker for this issue [2] also has some more info.  I manually
> searched Cuirass build logs and found 28 packages failing on x86_64 with
> this error:
>
> arcan-sdl <at> 0.5.5.2-1.b4dd1fb
> aris <at> 2.2
> blastem <at> 0.6.2
> chocolate-doom <at> 3.0.1
> crispy-doom <at> 5.8.0
> geeqie <at> 1.5
> glabels <at> 3.4.1
> gmtp <at> 1.3.11
> gpredict <at> 2.2.1
> gtksheet <at> 4.3.5
> jumpnbump <at> 1.61
> lablgtk <at> 2.18.10
> libappindicator <at> 12.10.0
> libopenshot <at> 0.2.5
> libsrtp <at> 2.3.0
> linsmith <at> 0.99.31
> megaglest <at> 3.13.0
> mupen64plus-core <at> 2.5
> ocaml4.07-lablgtk <at> 1.18.10
> ocl-icd <at> 2.2.12
> opencpn <at> 5.0.0
> pcsxr <at> 1.9.95
> pipewire <at> 0.2.7
> transcode <at> 1.1.7
> transmission-remote-gtk <at> 1.4.1
> uget <at> 2.2.1
> uim-gtk <at> 1.8.8
> uim-qt <at> 1.8.8
>
> I submitted an issue upstream for transmission-remote-gtk [3], but I
> haven't taken a look at the others.  Any takers?

Great that you built a list of affected packages.

I guess there are several options:

  1. Build with ‘-fcommon’, effectively restoring pre-GCC-10 behavior;

  2. Build with GCC 8.x or so, for example by adding it to
     ‘native-inputs’;

  3. Upgrade packages and hope for the best;

  4. Add the missing ‘extern’ keyword in declarations, assuming that
     really is the problem.

I suppose we’ll have to see on a case-by-cases basis which approach is
the easiest.  Since we have a list, let’s parallelize work and
synchronize on IRC and in this issue!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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