Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build error: test_gruel.o: undefined reference to symbol 'boost::system::get_system_category()'

[Alexandru Csete]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Johnathan Corgan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:18, address@hidden <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all, does anyone else get this error message when compiling
>> > GnuRadio? This is with latest code from today's master git tree, on
>> > Ubuntu 11.04, boost 1.42
>> >
>> > I can bypass this by manually adding -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem
>>
>> This looks like another instance of the new Debian DSO linking policy
>> show us where we've been making assumptions in our linker commands.
>> Your fix is correct; we'll need to figure out how to put it in the
>> appropriate Makefile.am.
>>
>> Here we've been sticking to the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release for most of
>> our development and testing.  Looks like we need to add 10.10 and
>> 11.04 VMs to the build farm so we can start catching this earlier.
>>
>> Johnathan
>
> Just a data point: one of my machines runs 10.10 without this problem
> (unless it's a brand new update). I think this has been introduced in 11.04.
> Tom

I haven't seen this issue on Ubuntu 10.10 either, but I think this
policy is being introduced in other distributions as well, e.g.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking

Alex