Bug 124783 – media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20060302 fails with "recompile with -fPIC"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benjamin Hodgetts 2006-03-03 05:45:33 UTC]

Can't work out what this error is to be honest. Blanked my LDFLAGS and still got the same error.

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../lib64/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../lib64/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libavcodec.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20060302/work/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20060302-shared/libavcodec'
make: *** [lib] Error

[Comment 1 Jure Repinc 2006-03-03 10:08:23 UTC]

Same problem here

Portage 2.1_pre5-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="sl_SI"
LINGUAS="en sl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/portageoverlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gif gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg kde lcms lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl php png posix ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slp speex spell sqlite ssl stream subversion svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vhosts videos vorbis xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_sl userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 2 Luca Barbato 2006-03-03 10:23:52 UTC]

I guess that's time to hardcode x264 to be pic ...

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-03-04 02:18:35 UTC]

*** Bug 124918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***