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Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc

From	Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc
Date	2026-05-07 18:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 11:20 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 7 May 2026 at 10:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > 
> > On 7 May 2026 at 15:27, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 08:18 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > > > Benjamin,
> > > > 
> > > > Damn. I dropped the ball here, and we ended up hot-fixing just the sed
> > > > split-char issue. I just reached out again to upstream to address the actual
> > > > issue of 'leaking' --package-metadata.
> > > 
> > > Fixing leaking the --package-metadata can be done by setting the LDFLAGS
> > > for the pkgconfig file.
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/-/merge_requests/4 will be enough
> > > for that.
> > 
> > In the narrow sense, sure. In the larger sense other distro builds needs a
> > fix too so I am again talking to upstream about splitting the LIBS variable.
> 
> Heard from upstream, they did take the patch from you that I forwarded; the
> issue really seems to be that I did not set LIBR_LDFLAGS to 'nothing' in
> debian/rules.
> 
> Do we care about other distro / other uses figuring out to set LIBR_LDFLAGS
> that way?  So far it really only seems to matter for 26.04 (and we will get a
> new binary to CRAN 'shortly'). 

It would be useful to spread the information to the other distributions.
Probably most of them want to set LIBR_LDFLAGS to 'nothing'.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 15:30 +0200
  Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 17:10 +0200
    Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 18:30 +0200
      Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 18:50 +0200
      Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 19:00 +0200
    Bug#1126018: r-base: Please exclude LDFLAGS from libR.pc Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2026-05-07 18:30 +0200

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