After a successful compile of kdevelop 3 (and 3.0.1) with the -fPIC flag in CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS in make.conf any attempt to close a file or project in kdevelop causes the application to segfault. The solution is to remove the flag before emerging. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add -fPIC to the CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf 2. emerge kdevelop 3. run kdevelop, create a file, close it Expected Results: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.2-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fPIC" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/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/bind /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fPIC" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd encode evo gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nowin nptl oci8 oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres postgresql python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl stroke svga tcpd tetex truetype vim-with-x x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Why do you want to specify -fPIC in the first place? Normally it should not be needed in the global CFLAGS.
I added the -fPIC flag to enable prelinking support on my PC. Although at the time neither kdevelop nor the rest of KDE were prelinked.
only libs should be compiled with -fpic on x86 -> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pic-internals.xml
