bug#50243: [core-updates-frozen] "multiple definition of..." build failures

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Sarah,

Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@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@0.5.5.2-1.b4dd1fb
> aris@2.2
> blastem@0.6.2
> chocolate-doom@3.0.1
> crispy-doom@5.8.0
> geeqie@1.5
> glabels@3.4.1
> gmtp@1.3.11
> gpredict@2.2.1
> gtksheet@4.3.5
> jumpnbump@1.61
> lablgtk@2.18.10
> libappindicator@12.10.0
> libopenshot@0.2.5
> libsrtp@2.3.0
> linsmith@0.99.31
> megaglest@3.13.0
> mupen64plus-core@2.5
> ocaml4.07-lablgtk@1.18.10
> ocl-icd@2.2.12
> opencpn@5.0.0
> pcsxr@1.9.95
> pipewire@0.2.7
> transcode@1.1.7
> transmission-remote-gtk@1.4.1
> uget@2.2.1
> uim-gtk@1.8.8
> uim-qt@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’.