When prelinking (prelink -afmR), it complains that executables using /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 cannot be prelinked because the library is not compiled with -fPIC I have version 1.0.1 of media-libs/libvorbis Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. prelink -afmR Actual Results: Several warning messages of the type: prelink: /usr/XXXXX: Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 Expected Results: No such warnings. ~>emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mule ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted usb wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
libvorbis-1.0.1-r1 has been added to portage. Please test and let me know how things go. You should now be able to prelink without a problem.