I tried to build mozilla, from source, in my home directory (completely outside the gentoo port system, for testing/hacking purposes). At link time, the compile fails with this: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libiberty.a(cplus-dem.o): @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol current_demangling_style gmake[4]: *** [libxpcom.so] Error 1 It fails at exactly the same point, with the same error, if I use gcc (3.3.2, tried -r2 and -r4) or the Intel C/C++ compiler. But it _doesn't_ fail if I build gcc myself also. (pulled a recent CVS drop, but I expect a vanilla 3.3.x release would work just fine also.) The "@gprel relocation against dynamic symbol" problem generally means that at some point, code built without -fPIC was linked into a library. This should never be the case on the ia64 or hppa platforms (they _require_ position independent code.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try and build mozilla (just a vanilla mozilla-source.tar.bz2) Actual Results: The build failed at link time Expected Results: Mozilla should have been built normally. This worked at some time in the past (I'm using mozilla to file this bug report!) so I'm not sure what has broken here, but something seems to have gone awry. bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-ia64-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r2, 2.6.0-test11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test11 ia64 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64 ~ia64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile ia64 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Duraid, thanks for this bug report. Please continue to debug this since I don't personally have the time to chase down vanilla compile issues. I will be happy to implement the fix in Gentoo when you have narrowed down what needs to be changed. Here are some questions that might help: Does mozilla compile correctly from ebuild? What version of mozilla are you attempting to build? What are the differences between the gcc ebuild and your vanilla version? Thanks.
No response from bug submitter (Duraid). Closing NEEDINFO
