Bugzilla Bug 45755

pilot-mailsync includes a gnome-pilot plugin, which can be compiled via
configure --enable-gpilot  

Ideally this should be installed by the ebuild if you're using gnome-pilot.

However, the gnome-pilot conduit will not compile due to the absence of -fPIC.

The build process creates a set of source files under imap-2002c1/c-client
(this directory does not exist in the original tarball).  In this directory
there is a file called CFLAGS - you must insert -fPIC into this file for it to
compile.  I also had -fPIC in my CFLAGS environment variable for good measure -
I'm not sure if this is essential or not - I'm guessing it is since you're
building a .so.

I'm not sure how easy this would be to fix via a patch (since you're patching a
file that is built dynamically) - this might need to be addressed by the
pilot-mailsync maintainers.  

Everything seems to be working just fine now though - it was pretty tricky to
get working and I figured that if nothing else my hour or two of work should be
seen by anyone having trouble getting this to work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.6.3-gentoo-r2-rf6) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2-rf6 x86_64 4 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /opt/zetagrid /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/freenet /var/qmail/control /var/www" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache gpg sandbox severe userpriv usersandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo 
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ 
ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo 
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X acpi acpi4linux alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd 
encode esd ethereal evo fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm 
gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib innodb jpeg kde libg++ libwww maildir mikmod 
motif mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl 
php png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd 
tiff truetype wmf xml2 xmms xv zlib"

amd64 bugs to amd64, it's not that hard. Don't assign if you don't know where
it should go.

You miss the actual breaking output btw.

Please provide a log of the emerge output

Created an attachment (id=30411) [edit]
emerge log

This is the emerge log - note that -fPIC was not included in the GCC options. 
This will cause problems when compiling other packages.

Reassning to pda since --gpilot isn't enabled by default. Fix for fPIC is in
net-libs/c-client ebuilds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77512 ***

oops wrong bug

hopefully now fixed for 0.8.3 that is now in portage. also enabled the gpilot
option via gnome useflag.