Bug 117256 – cdk has incorrect PIC handling

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2005-12-31 01:28:50 UTC]

the ebuild does 'append-flags -fPIC' ... this is clearly wrong

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2005-12-31 06:40:40 UTC]

I'm pretty sure it appends -fPIC to CFLAGS due to other packages linking 
to the current stable as a shared object and the current cdk is an foo.a
only. But the next release of cdk is supposed to be a lib.a and lib.so so
things that attempt to link shared will get proper shared behavior.
I think this was done for another bug that was being marked stable that was 
regressing. 

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-12-31 13:06:02 UTC]

cdk-5 produces a .so and a .a but the ebuild still does 'append-flags -fPIC'

[Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) 2005-12-31 13:26:33 UTC]

I think licq is the testcase for removing the extra call to append-flags on x86

[Comment 4 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2006-02-19 14:41:18 UTC]

I just tested removing ``append-flags -fPIC`` from cdk-5.0.20051230, licq compiled and ran fine. Is there anything else to test?

[Comment 5 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2006-02-19 14:43:04 UTC]

By the way, from cdk's Makefile.in:

.c.os:
@RULE_CC@
        @ECHO_CC@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c -fPIC $< -o $@

I guess this should cover all shared libs, right?

[Comment 6 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 22:37:50 UTC]

ok, fixed in cdk-5.0.20060220.ebuild since that's the current testing