dependency of glib2 on libelf harmful

[Jörn Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

Hi!

I am currently building pkgsrc on Solaris 10/Sparc with a stand-alone 
GCC 4.7.0, i.e. not the one from lang/gcc47, bootstrapped without any 
dependency on pkgsrc.

While building www/curl, the configure script choked on

checking for OpenSSL headers version... 0.9.8 - 0x0090817fL
checking for OpenSSL library version... unknown
checking for OpenSSL headers and library versions matching... fail

and the error in config.log was

configure:20915: gcc -o conftest -g0 -O2 -Wno-system-headers -isystem 
/usr/pkgsrc/20120411/include -I/usr/pkgsrc/20120411/include   -L/usr/p
kgsrc/20120411/lib -R/usr/pkgsrc/20120411/lib -L/usr/pkgsrc/20120411/lib 
  conftest.c -lssl -lcrypto -llber -lldap -lrt -lsocket  -lnsl -lssl 
-lcrypto -lsocket -lnsl -ldl   >&5
ld: fatal: file /var/tmp//ccIujcJ4.o: unknown file type

Thousands of other object files could be compiled succesfully, and I 
didn't encounter the problem on Solaris 10/i86.

It turned out, that after removal of devel/libelf the problem was gone. 
Although GCC was built without this libelf, it was included by the 
linker and caused the problem.

The only reason for having devel/libelf is the dependency in 
devel/glib2, which is AFAIK supposed to fix a problem relating to large 
file support on Solaris. I think pkg/41601 tells part of the story. But 
if this breaks the ability to use compilers not prepared to use this 
libelf, it's a bad fix.

Any ideas???

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 Jörn Clausen                             
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