[Oneiric, Natty, Maverick, Lucid SRU] Link libbfd statically

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:38:09AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact: By dynamically linking libbfd, it is not possible to have
> older versions of the perf tool installed (as there can only be one
> version of this lib). Also, Debian policy actually forbids depending
> on a certain version of the library).
> 
> Fix: Change the makefile to statically link libbfd. This is a Ubuntu
> specific change, though. Which unlikely will make it upstream.
> 
> Testcase: Check the perf version provided though the builders (it
> seems that building in chroots can cause builds not linking against
> libbfd at all as HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE gets set). The ouput of ldd
> should not show libbfd.
> 
> Actually, having said this, maybe the better solution is to modify
> the build dependencies to cause the compile to have
> HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE set. That way we do not need to carry a
> modification to the makefile which likely breaks...

I like the sound of this latter, I think you said we could achieve this
by build-depending oni libiberty instead?  Is that correct?

-apw