[oe] libnotify does not work when linking with gold

[Khem Raj]

On Friday, May 18, 2012, Andreas Müller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when using gold - angstrom default now - notifications in xfce do not
> work and complain with
>
> | notify-send: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libnotify.so.1: undefined
> symbol: gdk_screen_make_display_name
>
> To test I build an image without using gold and notifications work as
> expected.
>
> gdk_screen_make_display_name is part of gtk+. Is it possible that this
> is improperly exported? Or is it something like written in [1]
>
> Help appreciated


This looks like a case of under linking you need to specify the needed
library which provide these symbols on link line
Old linker allows over linking and I guess that's playing part here


>
> Andreas
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GoldIncompatibilities
>
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