Bug 26220 – libcap lacks use of -fPIC

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nico Baggus 2003-08-08 10:37:45 UTC]

libcap fails to build. 
After fixing bitops.h errors ('inlines' that should have been '__inline__') 
the building of the some library failes with:  
 
ld -soname libcap.so.1 -x -shared -o libcap.so.1.10 cap_alloc.o cap_proc.o 
cap_extint.o cap_flag.o cap_text.o cap_sys.o 
ld: cap_text.o: gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol _cap_names 
ld: cap_text.o: gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol _cap_names 
ld: cap_text.o: gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol _cap_names 
ld: cap_text.o: gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol _cap_names 
 
The solution will be a configure/makefile that has -fPIC on its 
gcc command line.

[Comment 1 Nico Baggus 2003-08-08 10:46:20 UTC]

This might give problems on other 64bit platforms too... 

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2003-08-11 02:33:44 UTC]

Hopefully fixed in CVS now.
Could you please see bug #26231 and comment on the __inline__ stuff some more.

[Comment 3 Nico Baggus 2003-08-11 15:28:25 UTC]

I have no CVS setup, so that would be quite a hassle, Do you have an ebuild  
for me to try? 
 
 

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2003-08-11 17:29:02 UTC]

I commit it to CVS and 30 minutes to an hour later it's on the rsync trees by the miracle of portage.

[Comment 5 Nico Baggus 2003-08-12 01:08:09 UTC]

Solved! 

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2003-08-12 01:12:20 UTC]

closing as per response from user.