Bug 34454 – emerging gplflash on amd64 complains about -fPIC

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Darryl Bleau 2003-11-26 11:52:51 UTC]

output of emerge:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gplflash-0.4.10-r3/work/flash-0.4.10/Player'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gplflash-0.4.10-r3/work/flash-0.4.10/Plugin'
gcc  -DXP_UNIX -I../Lib -I/usr/X11R6/include   -c -o plugin.o plugin.c
gcc  -DXP_UNIX -I../Lib -I/usr/X11R6/include   -c -o npunix.o npunix.c
ld -shared -o npflash.so plugin.o npunix.o ../Lib/libflash.a  ../Jpeg/libjpeg.a ../Zlib/libz.a
ld: plugin.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
plugin.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
make[1]: *** [npflash.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gplflash-0.4.10-r3/work/flash-0.4.10/Plugin'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 
!!! ERROR: net-www/gplflash-0.4.10-r3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 31, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

[Comment 1 Jeff Davey 2003-12-01 13:08:03 UTC]

Created attachment 21553 [details]
New ebuild with fPIC fix

[Comment 2 Jeff Davey 2003-12-01 13:08:24 UTC]

Created attachment 21554 [details, diff]
fPIC makefile patch

[Comment 3 Jeff Davey 2003-12-01 13:09:28 UTC]

patch goes to files/, new ebuild, emerges fine (compiles/install) however, having problems getting firebird to recognize it.

[Comment 4 Jeff Davey 2003-12-03 11:40:56 UTC]

Error from firebird while trying to load module:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/npflash.so [/opt/netscape/plugins/npflash.so: undefined symbol: __dso_handle]

[Comment 5 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2004-01-07 08:06:49 UTC]

Created attachment 23309 [details, diff]
New AMD64 Patch

This patch includes the -fPIC fix and a linking fiix to fix the loading error. 
Renamed patch to -amd64 to go with existing naming convention.

[Comment 6 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2004-01-07 08:07:35 UTC]

Created attachment 23310 [details, diff]
Patch against current ebuild to apply AMD64 Patch

[Comment 7 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2004-01-07 08:10:29 UTC]

The new patch above gets rid of the loading error.  Browser seems to crash when I go to any site using flash now.  I have never used this plugin under x86 so let me know if it works as good as the x86 compiled version.

[Comment 8 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 16:04:09 UTC]

they just did their first release in 4 years and it still wont compile+work. i'm marking this wontfix. you might want to poke at upstream...