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Bug 37998 - Synaptics doesn't works with -fPIC in USE
Summary: Synaptics doesn't works with -fPIC in USE
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2004-01-12 12:24 UTC by Alfonso Escribano
Modified: 2004-10-23 21:32 UTC (History)
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Description Alfonso Escribano 2004-01-12 12:24:18 UTC 
Synaptics (the lastest version) compiles fine with xfree-4.3.99.902 but it doesn't works if you have -fPIC in USE

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.put -fPIC in USE
2.emerge synaptics
3.X

Actual Results:  
xfree doesn't works due to a synaptics module fail

Expected Results:  
xfree should works

Don't use -fPIC in USE and it will works fine
Comment 1 Alfonso Escribano 2004-01-13 13:37:48 UTC 
I mean in CFLAGS not in USE, sorry
Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-13 14:11:34 UTC 
Right we got the idea. =)
Comment 3 Andrew Bevitt 2004-01-18 18:41:34 UTC 
Which arch are you experiencing this on?

(for those who know what im talking about)
This looks similar to the limitation on xalloc and its memory allocation, which stuffs up relocation on certain systems. This is something that would be fixed by dlloader if it worked properly.

For the record this is the list that is broken and mapped to use malloc from within XFree. Are you using something else?
PowerMAX_OS/PPC
Linux/Alpha
Linux/PPC
Linux/IA-64
Comment 4 Alfonso Escribano 2004-01-18 18:57:07 UTC 
is in a x86 with kernel sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1
elbicho .varios 21:53:14 # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 11
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 1196.285
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 2367.48
Comment 5 Andrew Bevitt 2004-02-06 14:52:01 UTC 
Out of curiosity why do you want -fPIC in synaptics to begin with?
Comment 6 Bryan Stine (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-23 21:32:57 UTC 
This bug has been inactive for a while. Since it seems to work fine for me with PIC and PIE-SSP, I'm gonna go ahead and mark it as such.