Comment 12 for bug 10768

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:38:13PM +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hello,

> > This bug is because inkscape is hitting a limit on the size of symbol tables
> > on these archs, and current versions of the toolchain error out such
> > circumstances (previous toolchain versions would silently truncate the
> > symbol table).

> > The attached patch switches inkscape's build from multigot symbol tables
> > (the default on mips and mipsel) to the more extensible xgot format.

> Thank you very much for this patch, I'll include it into the debian
> package and forward it upstream ASAP.

I'm not sure that this patch is suitable for upstream; it is a workaround
for certain current issues in the Debian toolchain, I'm not sure what effect
it would have to implement the same flags on other mips systems.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer