Looking at these messages and a quick google revealed this email
suggesting that -rdynamic was needed.
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-users/2005-October/002750.html
So I added a LDFLAGS declaration to debian/rules as attached and it
works for me.
--- silky-0.5.2/debian/rules 2004-08-20 14:09:00.000000000 -0700
+++ my-silky-0.5.2/debian/rules 2006-08-18 23:21:26.000000000 -0700
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
CFLAGS = -Wall -g
+LDFLAGS = -rdynamic
ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
CFLAGS += -O0
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
config.status: configure
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to configure the package.
- CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure \
+ CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" ./configure \
--host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \
--build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
--prefix=/usr \