diff --git a/maintainers/docs/bugs.txt b/maintainers/docs/bugs.txt index eb158b2bb5e..fa2f324cf0f 100644 --- a/maintainers/docs/bugs.txt +++ b/maintainers/docs/bugs.txt @@ -34,4 +34,17 @@ include/X11/IntrinsicP.h:202:25: X11/ObjectP.h: No such file or directory (moved to include/X11; should edit include/Makefile.am) -* Add "exit 0" at the end of configure of rte package. +* `ld' on Mac OS X barfs if the timestamp on static libraries has + changed (which happens if they are installed through a substitute). + + Typical error: + + /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: libATerm.a is out of + date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) + + Solution: patch ld. + + Non-solution: extend NAR file format to include timestamps. We + don't want that because they introduce a source of non-determinism. + To catch problems like this one determistically, we should change + the timestamp on store objects to 0.