334659 – dev-libs/boost is built as non-PIC on amd64

Bug 334659 - dev-libs/boost is built as non-PIC on amd64

Summary: dev-libs/boost is built as non-PIC on amd64

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	C++ Team [disbanded]

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Reported:	2010-08-26 14:59 UTC by Moritz Moeller
Modified:	2012-10-31 16:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Moritz Moeller 2010-08-26 14:59:38 UTC

To statically link against any lib on amd64 it must have been built with -fPIC. I do software development on Gentoo and the software must have as little library deps as possible when being shipped.
So I do link boost statically (this saves a lot of space too as the linker only embeds used symbols).
To do this on amd64 I must patch the boost ebuild to add the resp flag. I'd love to see this being added to the ebuild upstream.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Moritz Moeller 2010-08-26 15:01:06 UTC

I add this to src_configure():

  if use amd64 ; then
      append-flags -fPIC
  fi;

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-31 16:54:32 UTC

All static libraries for amd64 are built non-PIC, only shared objects are built PIC.