Comment 13 for bug 10768

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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:31:47 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Wolfram Quester <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#283476: inkscape: FTBFS on mips(el)

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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 t=
ables
> > 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

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