Package: fio
Version: 1.50-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ld-as-needed

The package fails to build when --as-needed linker option is enabled,
because of incorrect order of parameters passed to ld. Here's a log of
failed build in Ubuntu:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70832832/buildlog_ubuntu-oneiric-i386.fio_1.50-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

See also
http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking#Only_link_with_needed_libraries

The attached patch was used in Ubuntu to fix the problem.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fio/1.50-1ubuntu1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric
  APT policy: (500, 'oneiric')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Description: Place object before libraries to fix linking FTBFS.
Author: Ilya Barygin <[email protected]>

--- fio-1.50.orig/Makefile
+++ fio-1.50/Makefile
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ mandir = $(prefix)/share/man
        $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $@ -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $<
        
 fio: $(OBJS)
-       $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(LIBS) $(OBJS)
+       $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
 
 depend:
        $(QUIET_DEP)$(CC) -MM $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(SOURCE) 1> .depend

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