Bug 19278 – mod_php build fails when USE="imap" is used

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ilya Volynets (RETIRED) 2003-04-13 22:59:20 UTC]

When I try to emerge mod_php on alpha with "imap" in "USE" variable, build fails
with "gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol ...".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. add "imap" to USE variable in /etc/make.conf
2. emerge mod_php
3. Sit and wait till you get linker error

Actual Results:  
build fails with "gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol ..."


Problem is due to the fact that c-client.a -- library from uw-imap package
is compiled without -fpic, and mod_php extensions are dynamic libraries, and
thus cannot be used with non-pic objects.

alpha c-c # emerge info
Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-pre9 alpha EV6
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="alpha crypt encode gif imlib jpeg libg++ mikmod motif ncurses oggvorbis oss
pdflib png quicktime sdl spell truetype xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline
tetex mysql gpm tcpd pam libwww perl python -X -gtk -gnome -alsa -qt -kde -cups
-opengl ssl postgres ldap ipv6 nls gnupg gssapi imap krb5 curl xml xml2
-apache2"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev6 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev6 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="ccache"

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2003-05-15 20:35:03 UTC]

I can't reproduce this. My UW-IMAP is compiled with -fPIC from what I can see.
The best I can do is include check to ensure that UW-IMAP is compiled with -fPIC via checking for symbols.

[Comment 2 Ilya Volynets (RETIRED) 2003-05-15 22:24:07 UTC]

Well, I had to explicitly recompile with -fPIC, as by default it was not. Checking would *probably* work, though better option would be to compile local version of c-client with appropriate options. It is always a static lib anyways...

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2003-08-11 02:08:39 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.
You may need to upgrade c-client or uw-imap and re-emerge PHP after that.