Hi lm-sensors developer, It would be great if lm-sensors can take into account distribution LDFLAGS so that exported variables change linker behavior. For instance, ubuntu uses -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions. Taking this patch will enable us to just sync from debian on this package. In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * handle default ubuntu LDFLAGS for linking option (LP: #321632) - Remove the old hack directly pushed in lib/Module.mk (now lib/Module.mk if from pristine source) - add debian/patches/07-use-LDFLAGS.patch to take LDFLAGS into account Debian and Ubuntu thought you might be interested to handle this directly upstream. --- lm-sensors-3-3.0.2.orig/lib/Module.mk 2008-05-18 8:07:48.000000000 +0200 +++ lm-sensors-3-3.0.2/lib/Module.mk 2009-01-26 22:15:02.000000000 +0100 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ # How to create the shared library $(MODULE_DIR)/$(LIBSHLIBNAME): $(LIBSHOBJECTS) - $(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(LIBSHSONAME) -o $@ $^ -lc -lm + $(CC) -shared $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-soname,$(LIBSHSONAME) -o $@ $^ -lc -lm $(MODULE_DIR)/$(LIBSHSONAME): $(MODULE_DIR)/$(LIBSHLIBNAME) $(RM) $@ Thanks in advance. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. Didier Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/debian/+source/lm-sensors-3/+bug/321632 Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513171